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Grandfathered YouTube Premium users will see price increase in January (9to5google.com)
submitted 2 years ago by to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[–] 22 points 2 years 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.

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  • [–] 20 points 2 years 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.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Pi-hole is a beautiful thing...

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (2 children)

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

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago (1 child)

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

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    why are you paying for DNS?

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years 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.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (3 children)

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

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago (1 child)

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

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (3 children)

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

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    I doubt the Pi costs that much in electricity tbh.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

    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?

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