YouTube tests blocking videos unless you disable ad blockers

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YouTube tests blocking videos unless you disable ad blockers
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Pihole will not block YouTube ads. I think it’s incapable of doing so without blocking YouTube.

I can confirm this - the content comes from the same DNS name as the ads, this means pihole cannot distinguish between them

The solution then falls on something like ublock origin - sadly layers of ad blocking is needed in this day and age

The problem is that unlike a lot of other ads YouTube serves its ads from YouTube.com and because of SSL PiHole can only act on YouTube.com as a whole, so there's no way to block just the ads without blocking all of the site.