Is there a good guide a Revanced newbie could follow to get it all set up? I’ve been searching around uBlock as a lot of sites related to Revanced flagged as “bad ware.” Theres a lot of info out there but some of it’s quite old (might not be an issue) but my ignorance and anxiety prompted by the uBlock flags makes me hesitant to trust what comes up in searches. Most of the communities here are quiet as well.
Also, for ad-blocking on your phone on the go, pair your Pi-Hole with a Wireguard VPN where you connect your phone to the VPN to pass your phone traffic through your Pi-Hole DNS. I have this set up for my phone, and it’s tits.
Fantastic advice. I’d be lost without the ability to VPN back to my home for DNS blocking. Plus the ability to safely connect to everything on my LAN without exposing ports (NAS, Home Assistant, cameras, etc). Thanks for mentioning this!
Indubidubly, and a cherry on top. Not only is Pi-hole an Adblocking DNS server, it’s also a DNS server and solves any issue with name resolution at the door for your services.
Pihole is 100% awesome but I just want mention that AdGuard is great on iOS devices to deal with ads while away from home. There is also AdGuard Home which is compareable to Pihole and is also free software (GPL 3).
It’s hilarious to me that Youtube, through their low payout for advertising, has pushed everyone into doing paid sponsor segments. Which means that paying for Youtube Premium doesn’t work, you need Sponsorblock if you want to not see ads on Youtube. And if you’re installing Sponsorblock, why not just get uBlock Origin too?
I wouldn’t mind youtube ads so much if they weren’t so fucking bad. Like the lowest of the low most shitty ads are on youtube. Also they allow stuff in the ads that creators making videos aren’t allowed to (sexualized content, scams etc.)
I saw one that ran for a while recently talking about a device that measures blood sugar (for diabetics) by just clamping it on your finger, no blood draw or prick. The video of it literally showed a pulse oximeter. No blood sugar readout, even in the ad video, just pulse and oxygen level.
Also, at some point people lost the skill of making short ads on YouTube (or YouTube reduced the price of unskippable ads too much). If your brand or product is so bad you need more than five seconds of advertisement before a YouTube video, you either need to improve your product (so it’s easier to describe) or hire a better copywriter.
Most actual good ads on YouTube have been 5-10 seconds, interesting, informative – and they fulfill the actual part of what the ad is trying to achieve. They get you interested, and get you to click it to find out more. They have a clear message that you can internalize even before realising there’s an ad running.
It’s almost as if advertisers are purposely making bad ads to force people to watch through them without interaction to avoid paying the premium for the user click rate. That or they simply don’t understand the amount of value a good ad director and a good copywriter can generate.
That certainly contributes as well. I find myself especially annoyed by AI-created soundtracks – they usually sound like a mix of someone passing out in a drumset while someone else is hammering random keys on a keyboard. Similar to the early deep dream AI pictures, but for music.
If you’re still skipping, take the next step and start blocking.
https://pi-hole.net/
https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock
https://revanced.app/
https://sponsor.ajay.app/
If you don’t want to self-host https://joindns4.eu/ has a public ad-blocking dns service
Is there a good guide a Revanced newbie could follow to get it all set up? I’ve been searching around uBlock as a lot of sites related to Revanced flagged as “bad ware.” Theres a lot of info out there but some of it’s quite old (might not be an issue) but my ignorance and anxiety prompted by the uBlock flags makes me hesitant to trust what comes up in searches. Most of the communities here are quiet as well.
Any guidance would be appreciated!
Also, for ad-blocking on your phone on the go, pair your Pi-Hole with a Wireguard VPN where you connect your phone to the VPN to pass your phone traffic through your Pi-Hole DNS. I have this set up for my phone, and it’s tits.
https://www.wireguard.com/
Fantastic advice. I’d be lost without the ability to VPN back to my home for DNS blocking. Plus the ability to safely connect to everything on my LAN without exposing ports (NAS, Home Assistant, cameras, etc). Thanks for mentioning this!
Indubidubly, and a cherry on top. Not only is Pi-hole an Adblocking DNS server, it’s also a DNS server and solves any issue with name resolution at the door for your services.
dns certs? Pihole’s got you.
Pihole is 100% awesome but I just want mention that AdGuard is great on iOS devices to deal with ads while away from home. There is also AdGuard Home which is compareable to Pihole and is also free software (GPL 3).
I use Rethink for my phone and it’s pretty good. I don’t have a VPN yet so it works for now.
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Also you can get sponsor block for youtube and it auto skips sponsored segments.
It’s hilarious to me that Youtube, through their low payout for advertising, has pushed everyone into doing paid sponsor segments. Which means that paying for Youtube Premium doesn’t work, you need Sponsorblock if you want to not see ads on Youtube. And if you’re installing Sponsorblock, why not just get uBlock Origin too?
I wouldn’t mind youtube ads so much if they weren’t so fucking bad. Like the lowest of the low most shitty ads are on youtube. Also they allow stuff in the ads that creators making videos aren’t allowed to (sexualized content, scams etc.)
I saw one that ran for a while recently talking about a device that measures blood sugar (for diabetics) by just clamping it on your finger, no blood draw or prick. The video of it literally showed a pulse oximeter. No blood sugar readout, even in the ad video, just pulse and oxygen level.
Also, at some point people lost the skill of making short ads on YouTube (or YouTube reduced the price of unskippable ads too much). If your brand or product is so bad you need more than five seconds of advertisement before a YouTube video, you either need to improve your product (so it’s easier to describe) or hire a better copywriter.
Most actual good ads on YouTube have been 5-10 seconds, interesting, informative – and they fulfill the actual part of what the ad is trying to achieve. They get you interested, and get you to click it to find out more. They have a clear message that you can internalize even before realising there’s an ad running.
It’s almost as if advertisers are purposely making bad ads to force people to watch through them without interaction to avoid paying the premium for the user click rate. That or they simply don’t understand the amount of value a good ad director and a good copywriter can generate.
Vast majority are made with AI now so they’re an extra layer of shitty.
That certainly contributes as well. I find myself especially annoyed by AI-created soundtracks – they usually sound like a mix of someone passing out in a drumset while someone else is hammering random keys on a keyboard. Similar to the early deep dream AI pictures, but for music.
I think if they were more effective at manipulating people, I’d hate them more.
Mullvad has built in ad-blocking as well. Haven’t needed my pi-hole in over a year.