Scumbag #Youtube giving me ads for warm vacation destinations during a lockdown. 😒

Does anyone have tips for an adblocker for a Samsung smart tv? Kinda hoping that Pihole has gotten better at blocking smart tv ads.

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@Gina pretty impractical on YT now. The ads are basically, to any of your network gear, indistinguishable from the stream you requested. DNS trickery is no longer sufficient. I would have said impossible but somewhere someone is surely doing something likely involving real-time decoding and frame analysis to drop frames that are ads before encoding it all back and passing through an ad-free stream. Gonna guess that takes a touch more power than most embedded SoCs offer yet.

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