• Steinsprut@szmer.info
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    1 year ago

    I took the L and started paying for YT Premium since you can’t really get rid of ads on LG TV otherwise

    Did it with a bit of malicious compliance and opted for Family plan using argentinian VPN, totaling at less than $3 a month (and constantly dropping) for 5 people.

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          1 year ago

          For the cost of 3 months of YouTube Premium, you can buy a $20 Onn 4k box that runs near stock Google TV and then have a much better experience with SmartTube Next.

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          True. In my case I was luckily able to root it and install YouTube Adfree from homebrew channel but apparently LG has patched most of the exploits in newest firmwares.

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          1 year ago

          Probably not ideal, but what about screen mirroring from your phone using a browser with adblock enabled?

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      Same here, been using YT Premium via Argentina for 2 years or so by now. It’s nice, cause the few bucks you pay for that are fine, considering you get all videos ad-free and even YT music which isn’t great but a nice bonus! just a shame you by now need a Mastercard for it cause Visas have to be from Argentina, as I’ve heard.

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      1 year ago

      PiHole, Adguard Home and the like can’t block ads on smart TVs? Or is it something like the TV refusing to start if it contacts the ad server and doesn’t get a response?

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        YouTube fixed that ages ago. Ads and videos are from the same endpoints now. So as far as pihole is concerned it’s all videos

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        AFAIK due to how YouTube apps on Smart TVs work if you try blocking the ads it’ll stop loading the videos altogether. Similarly how on phones people are using modified apps like Vanced instead of adblocking ad servers

      • mnrockclimber@lemmy.sdf.org
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        PiHole blocks by preventing certain domains from loading (the ones you specify on your blocklist). It’s not examining any content. It simply sees a request for say examplespamdomain.com and blocks it when something on your network requests it. Youtube serves ads and videos from the same domain, so this approach doesn’t work.