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		xienze on May 10, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Pi-hole 5.0 > Now if it could just filter out YouTube ads... Ive heard that the problem is that the native YT apps come with a big list of IP addresses for the ad servers, instead of doing lookups.

dahfizz on May 10, 2020 | [–]

If true, it would be pretty easy to grab those ip addresses from the binary and add them to a firewall.

A firewall is a little more than what I would trust to a raspberry pie, though...

kgwxd on May 10, 2020 | [–]

I thought it was streaming the ads right along with the main content making it impossible to block.

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