Update 2020-10-24 It's not likely that you'll be able to block in-video ads with Pi-hole. For that, you'll need something like uBlock origin for desktop, or vanced for android (Now defunct), This thread has been closed as there is not much more discussion to be had around the topic. Update 2018-1…

Thanks a lot to @ErikFontanel for the script! However, I had to do some modifications, some of then suggested in this tread, to make it work, at least partially. This is what I did: #!/bin/sh # This script will fetch the Googlevideo ad domains and append them to the Pi-hole block list. # Run this…

Try grep "r*\.googlevideo\.com"

Now... it works perfectly! Thanks!

I'm leave here the final script that worked for me after @Chipster suggestion. #!/bin/sh # This script will fetch the Googlevideo ad domains and append them to the Pi-hole block list. # Run this script daily with a cron job (don't forget to chmod +x) # More info here: https://discourse.pi-hole.net/…

I don't know but I have the feeling that this is going to end blocking the whole youtube. All the googlevideo.com queries are r*.googlevideo.com. So sometimes I have to reload if I want to watch a video so it changes the domain (or something like that).

[image] Blocking via regex now available in FTLDNS Announcements Originally published at: https://pi-hole.net/2018/04/24/blocking-via-regex-now-available-in-ftldns/ We have implemented GNU Extended Regular Expressions for blocking domains into FTLDNS (as us…

something interesting... I can't watch (some) videos from youtube in my iPad or iPhone either on the web or the app, but on the computer is OK... When I check it's always the same domain blocked r16---sn-uxap5nvoxg5-ixhs.googlevideo.com. I don't know if this is the best approach... I still get add…

[image] lpuerto: I still get adds from time to time in the computer but I can see some videos on other devices anymore. This has been reported above also. [image] How do I block ads on YouTube? Help I changed the script form @Joshua_joezoef_B_ZzO a bit …

clients6.google.com blocks messages from Hangouts from being sent. Does anyone know what i.ytimg.com is? I see it quite frequently.

How do I block ads on YouTube?

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DL6ER April 24, 2018, 5:31pm 155

This feature is now implemented and available for early-on testing if you want to get your hands dirty. I guess that means the race is open for the best blocking regex!