Oof I think this service is only worth it if you have a family plan and everyone helping. That is how I personally make it reasonable in terms of pricing.

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    https://docs.pi-hole.net/

    But I think they will cut access without ads soon enough, and I do agree someone needs to pay for the service.

    My problem is quality of the platform went down with higer quality of production. Those with better production are doing better than those with quality content. Additionally it started looking like TV network with dozen big shows, and not enough random content. Ex. they always recommend me videos with 1M+ views, even thou a I want only ones with less than 100k.

    I have been dusting of my podcast players for some time. I like to have a video, but looks like price is too high for me. Audio will be good.

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      Pi hole does not work for YouTube (or Twitch or many others). It doesn’t work for services who distribute ads from their own servers.

      If you had Android instead of iOS you may have been able to use an ad-free youtube client and cast to TV, but if you’re streaming on the TV, or from iOS, I don’t know how you’d go about blocking ads.

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        Right. I’ve done my research before and I do have a Pi hole setup on my Linux server. I used Vanced back when I was on Android but I had to switch to iOS for work and stayed on it since.

        It sucks because I’d much rather not pay for YouTube at all, but we share the family plan since we’re all on iOS…

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      Doesn’t it let YouTube ads go through? Because they use the same domains for videos and ads? AFAIK Pi Hole can’t block YT ads right?