YouTube is starting to show ads on TVs whenever you pause a video, as first announced earlier this year by Google.

YouTube is starting to show ads on TVs whenever you pause a video, as first announced earlier this year by Google.

  • BrikoXOPMEnglish
    2•6 days ago

    I’m not too familiar with different TV OS, but even just DNS blocking would still work for that. DNS blacklists are not enough to block ads on native clients, as they are being served from the same domain.

    If they start embedding ads into the stream, then it will have to move to SponsorBlock style community blocking, but technically still viable.

    • @[email protected]English
      1•6 days ago

      As I understand it, DNS blocking does not work for any YouTube ads as the ads are hosted on the same servers as the videos.

      Certainly, my pihole - which has successfully blocked many ads - does not do anything for YouTube.

      • BrikoXOPMEnglish
        1•6 days ago

        Seems you are right. I don’t use YouTube native clients, so never actually ran into the issue. Updated my original comment.

        • @[email protected]English
          2•6 days ago

          Respect to you!

          The only reason I know is because I primarily watch YouTube on my TV. People have pointed out to me that you can side load clients onto your TV, and they’re right, but I’m inclined to at least wait until my warranty expires before doing so.