Youtube ads are not being blocked

[sebelk]

Hi!

This project looks like interesting. Sadly, youtube ads are not being blocked

I've found that there are some domains in /etc/pihole/list.preEventHorizon but it cannot block all of them.

Logs are as follows:

Jun 10 08:51:12 dnsmasq[21296]: forwarded r5---sn-uxaxjvh5gbxoupo5-x1x6.googlevideo.com to 200.45.191.35
Jun 10 08:51:12 dnsmasq[21296]: reply r5---sn-uxaxjvh5gbxoupo5-x1x6.googlevideo.com is <CNAME>
Jun 10 08:51:12 dnsmasq[21296]: reply r5.sn-uxaxjvh5gbxoupo5-x1x6.googlevideo.com is 181.15.215.208
Jun 10 08:51:12 dnsmasq[21296]: reply r5---sn-uxaxjvh5gbxoupo5-x1x6.googlevideo.com is <CNAME>
Jun 10 08:51:12 dnsmasq[21296]: reply r5.sn-uxaxjvh5gbxoupo5-x1x6.googlevideo.com is 2001:13d0:0:c::10

Version is:

pihole -v
::: Pi-hole version is v3.0.1 (Latest version is v3.0.1)
::: Web-Admin version is v3.0.1 (Latest version is v3.0.1)

Is there a way to block all of ads before playing back youtoube videos?

Thanks in advance!

[jacob.salmela]

Blocking YouTube ads has been it or miss for our users. It is discussed in great detail here:

How do I block ads on YouTube?

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 2018-11-14 User's have had good success here: I'm updating this top-level post as of 2018-10-16 since a lot of people land here. Blocking ads on YouTube is hit or miss with Pi-hole. The reason for th…

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i'm currently still in the process of trying to find the right syntax to identify the ads for youtube. currently i'm having the following regex to prevent the ads from being loaded, it seems to work.

^([A-Za-z])[0-9]\-+[A-Za-z]+\-+[0-9]+[A-Za-z0-9]\-+[A-Za-z0-9]+\.googlevideo\.com