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Grandfathered YouTube Premium users will see price increase in January (9to5google.com)
submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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[–] [email protected] 22 points 11 months ago (3 children)

It's cheaper for me to just bump up my Adguard DNS subscription on my home router. Though I've only done limited testing to see how efficient it handles YT ads. (so far seems to work).

Honestly, the $3 CAD I spend on Adguard DNS through my router has been incredible. I'm flabbergasted when I connect to someone else's Wi-Fi and see what the Internet looks like outside my door walls.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Are you speaking about Adguard Home? That's free, if you're talking about their premium DNS, there are free alternatives with ad-blocking.

You can't block Youtube ads via DNS for quite some years now.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Pi-hole is a beautiful thing...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (2 children)

I thought Pi-hole didn’t work on YouTube? Or has that changed?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

Both do not.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I just meant for ads in general. As for YouTube, Firefox with ublock origin is still working wonders for me.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Unfortunately, I don’t think there is an ad blocker for, say, Roku, where I do most of my YouTube viewing

Really wish there was a viable alternative, and not just because of the ads, yt is the last Google thing I still consciously use

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago (2 children)

why are you paying for DNS?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

Nextdns was $22/year and worked very well for me for 3 years. I maintain my own now, but for many people it's perfectly fine to pay for a working service, not everyone wants or needs to fine tune their DNS like some. Just because it's free doesn't mean it's better and vice versa.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (3 children)

Never found a free one that works as well at blocking ads and trackers.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

NextDNS is paid but quite versatile. $20/year.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (3 children)

My Pi does the same. 20€/year in electricity + hardware for a docker host.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I doubt the Pi costs that much in electricity tbh.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)
  1. Depends on the region it's operated in.
  2. I pulled a number out of my behind :D
  3. [Insert 3rd reason here]
[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago
  1. I doubt you could get that high, honestly. Even at a high energy cost. They sip power.
  2. Fair enough ;D
  3. Most compelling reason of all, you’ve changed my mind. ;P
[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I deployed it for a while on my home server, but in the end, the uptime wasn't really satisfactory and I didn't want to lose my ad blocker due to fibre damages due to poor weather or similar issues, so I decided to go for NextDNS.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

How can the uptime be not satisfactory.
If it doesnt work, you either set it up incorrecrly or your server/home infrastructure has issues.

If the internet goes out due to bad weather, I think I you have other problems than no ad block, no?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Not regular bad weather, but torrential weather. ISPs do have downtime once in a while as well.

I can only do 3 9s of uptime for now, and it makes enough sense for me to pay for the convenience.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 11 months ago

Good for you? Glad you know everyone's situation.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

have you tried quad9?

https://quad9.net/