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903 | 967 | |
8,582 | 2,868 | |
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9.3 | 7.3 | |
10 days ago | 26 days ago | |
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GNU General Public License v3.0 only | MIT License |
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SponsorBlock
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The creator economy can't rely on Patreon
You are one of today's 10,000.
And if you have android:
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YouTube strikes again, it seems
The SponsorBlock [0] addon has already solved that for sponsored/ad segments in videos. Rather than AI, crowdsourced timestamps lets it automatically skip past adverts.
- Amazon Prime Video Will Start Showing Ads on January 29
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Show HN: YouTube banned adblockers so I built an extension to skip their ads
For the latter there’s the open-source SponsorBlock: https://sponsor.ajay.app/
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YouTube's plan backfires, people are installing better ad blockers
During this debacle I did discover SponsorBlock - https://sponsor.ajay.app/
This is different from YouTube platform ad-blocking, instead it is crowd-sourced auto-skip of in-video sponsorship messages etc. Quite configurable, really appreciating it so far.
- YouTube's Ad Blocker Crackdown Spurs Record Uninstalls
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YouTube's Anti-Adblock and uBlock Origin
> a creator having a "merch" ad integration doesn't count as an ad.
this is why you also install sponsorblock (https://sponsor.ajay.app/). Only whitelist the channels you want to "support", if you really want to make sure to eyeball the sponsorship (which doesn't really help unless it happens to be a product you actually are interested in buying).
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FreeTube – The Private YouTube Client
This is from the same person that made sponsorblock https://sponsor.ajay.app/
This means that it's the community that sees sensational thumbnails and changes them to some other thumbnail. By default dearrow shows random thumbnails if no other were provided by the community. But you can disable this and show original thumbnails, but if there is a community submitted thumbnail it will show the community submitted one. I think for example the arte thumbnails won't get changed to other thumbnails as they are not sensational/clickbaity/mouth open.
nextdns
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Runs on your OpenWrt box: AdGuard Home is network-wide blocking ads and tracking
I ran a competing project[0] on my home network for a few years before I discovered NextDNS[1]. What I lost in performance (requests don't leave my house) I gained in portability: ALL my devices can take advantage – at home and away – and time-saved. PiHole works 90% of the time, but when it did stop working, I'd have to spend a bit of time fixing it. At $20/year, I simply couldn't compete with NextDNS.
Note: This isn't a shill for NextDNS; I love these kinds of projects and think they absolutely should exist, but NextDNS just happens to be one of those dead-simple SaaS tools that is an insanely good value.
I used Pi-Hole, then went to NextDNS, then to AdGuard DNS, tinkered with AdGuard Home, and currently testing Control-D. They are all actually pretty good, similar features, and it has become just a matter of personal choice.
In all fairness, when I have some time and can invest in decent hardwares, I might go back to AdGuard Home with one of the paid services as backup for travel, and when for the other family members.
Pi-Hole works really well but once-a-while, when I'm traveling, it will decide to act up and it's a whole IT support with the family over phone for minutes if not hours. I'm not smart enough to setup a secure enough tunnel and the like, and haven't read up enough on the topic. This follows similar pattern with AdGuard Home.
NextDNS, AdGuard DNS, Control-D are easy and just works, especially with the devices that the family uses. I think I bought one of those AdGuard Lifetime license, so I use that to block client-side rendered ads in conjunction with either AdGuard DNS or NextDNS or Control-D. Right now, Control-D is doing pretty good with my test-drive.
Okay but NextDNS' own homepage says it "blocks ads and trackers on websites and in apps" - https://nextdns.io
- Great Forgotten Sci-Fi Movies of the 1980s
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Google Chrome will limit ad blockers starting June 2024
pretty much to the same effect of a pihole, yet you can get up and running in minutes. You can then configure wherever you please: your browser, your laptop, your phone, or even your router.
[0]: https://nextdns.io
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Cloudflare 1.1.1.1 DNS resolving issues
It's not open, but I'm happy with https://nextdns.io/
There is https://www.dns0.eu and https://nextdns.io.
I like the 300K requests per month free tier that nextdns.io has. Comes with plenty of filters.
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“1.1.1.1 is now handling more than 1.3T requests per day”
you can also have a look at nextdns [0][1]. I set it up on both my mac nad iOS. NextDns provides a panel where you can see what got blocked and some other analytics for you. Even though I use Brave on iOS and Arc with uBlock Origin still that wasn't enough and nexDNS blocked some additional ~8% trackers. It's free for first 300k requests per month.
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Comestic adblocking in iOS
On my journey, I've experimented with various DNS filtering methods. I've used the AhaDNS Blitz (previously known as PiHoleDNS), and its performance was okay in my opinion. But, Reddit's chatter about NextDNS made me try it out. and I've been giving it a whirl over the past few weeks. Its user interface is nice and it allows significant control over various block lists.
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A collection of useful Mac Apps
NextDNS - Price: Free (with an optional pro version available) DNS resolver for macOS that blocks ads, trackers, and malware.
What are some alternatives?
AdGuardHome - Network-wide ads & trackers blocking DNS server
NewPipe - A libre lightweight streaming front-end for Android.
Pi-hole - A black hole for Internet advertisements
blokada - The official repo for Blokada apps.
blahdns - A small hobby ads block dns project with doh, dot, dnscrypt support.
dnscrypt-proxy - dnscrypt-proxy 2 - A flexible DNS proxy, with support for encrypted DNS protocols.
Invidious - Invidious is an alternative front-end to YouTube
Unbound - Unbound is a validating, recursive, and caching DNS resolver.
Spotify-Ad-Blocker - EZBlocker - A Spotify Ad Blocker for Windows
NewPipe - A fork of NewPipe with SponsorBlock functionality.
Netguard - A simple way to block access to the internet per app
yt-dlp - A feature-rich command-line audio/video downloader