I've heard a couple people talk about this, but I never figured out how it works. Is there something you program into your router? Do you have to buy something?
I suppose that it depends on your router, but I ended up just buying a Raspberry Pi. It’s actually pretty straight forward. If you can configure a home internet router then you can set up Pi Hole.
Be forewarned that it does not block YouTube ads (which are the bane of my existence).
Yeah, I mostly watch it on my Fire Stick and Apple TV. Since the Fire Stick is basically an Android device, I’m holding out hope that the Vanced project is resurrected and I can load it onto it.
Pi-Hole is software that runs on linux. It basically acts as a domain name proxy, and uses various lists of known domain names to compare all domain requests against. Any domain requests that match domains on the list get dropped.
Generally people run it on some kind of linux device, whether a server of some type, or a stand alone linux machine. Rasberry Pi is one of those low powered single circuit board computers that only costs $20, and can run linux, so that is what I do. I run pi-hole on top of it.
I've heard a couple people talk about this, but I never figured out how it works. Is there something you program into your router? Do you have to buy something?
I suppose that it depends on your router, but I ended up just buying a Raspberry Pi. It’s actually pretty straight forward. If you can configure a home internet router then you can set up Pi Hole.
Be forewarned that it does not block YouTube ads (which are the bane of my existence).
Newpipe is a good open-source, adblocking Youtube app for Android. It's available on the FDroid appstore.
NewPipe
On android, the Brave browser will play youtube videos and block ads. Though you can't get background playback
Yeah, I mostly watch it on my Fire Stick and Apple TV. Since the Fire Stick is basically an Android device, I’m holding out hope that the Vanced project is resurrected and I can load it onto it.
Pi-Hole is software that runs on linux. It basically acts as a domain name proxy, and uses various lists of known domain names to compare all domain requests against. Any domain requests that match domains on the list get dropped.
Generally people run it on some kind of linux device, whether a server of some type, or a stand alone linux machine. Rasberry Pi is one of those low powered single circuit board computers that only costs $20, and can run linux, so that is what I do. I run pi-hole on top of it.