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TIL Netflix ad tier blocks some shows and movies unless you upgrade your plan
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this post was submitted on 13 Dec 2024
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The ads are really what get me. I’m fucking paying you and you still show me ads?!
I'm so tired of ads everywhere. I ad block at so many avenues. How do we crack an iPad to get rid of app ads? Is that possible?
It is also possible to block ads using some VPNs. But in general, if you want the freedom to modify things, you should not be using Apple products.
I typically don't but I have an iPad from being in aviation and gave it to my little one. The app ForeFlight isn't available on Android. They have a Garmin one but it just isn't the same.
I use this on iOS and iPadOS. It isn’t perfect and needs tinkering and tweaking. But it does block ads systemwide in most apps (banner ads, not those pesky in game ads usually). And you can customise it by seeing what ad servers were called, and add them to the block list.
Pi-hole network is probably the easiest approcah
Wouldn't an ad-blocking DNS work just as well?
That's literally what a pi-hole is.
No, they mean setting your DNS to an already existing ad blocking DNS. You do not need a oi hole to do that. See option 2 here https://adguard-dns.io/en/public-dns.html
I do this on my router and phone. It doesn't block everything, sure, but it blocks more than you'd think. And I didn't have to fiddle with a raspberry Pi.
Company's are catching on to this and hard coding their apps to google dns. This is why it only works sometimes and the best option is to setup either pihole or adguard home dns and use firewall rules to forward all dns to it.
Block DNS outbound. The only DNS you get is what I give you. Oh, you can't resolve an address because you've hardcoded your app? Well, I guess I don't get to watch that ad, which is the same result as if you used my DNS.
Firewall would help, yeah, but I don't think PiHole would with a hard coded DNS server.
Maybe i made it sound weird. Use a firewall to catch all dns traffic trying to leave the network and route it the PiHole/Adguard Home. This is how to make sure nothing, not even hardcoded dns on any app on any device, wont be filtered. I personally block google dns IPs on top of this but that's just a precaution.
Ohh, yeah, I think that might work. I don't really know the ins and outs of low level DNS stuff. With HTTPS that wouldn't work unless you had some sort of self signed cert on your device, but I don't think normal regular DNS traffic is encrypted at all. I see a lot of folks talk about the privacy aspect of it, so, yeah, maybe you can do that more easily.
Is this something Pi Hole can do by itself? (With some settings on your router as well, of course, because you already have to set it as the DNS.)
You would need a firewall to provide any type of blocking or port forwarding. Most routers provide some basic ability to do this but it's hit or miss and depends on the manufacturer. I came from a modded merlin asuswrt Asus router firmware to an opnsense firewall running on custom hardware.
If you set up a pihole, most of those in-game banner and popup ads won’t show up on iOS with the default blocklists. You won’t even be able to play ads for rewards anymore without disabling or swapping to a different network. Anything from the prime mobile store will still have ads unless you block the full Amazon domain, but those are the only ones I’ve encountered that are that persistent, and those are easy enough to avoid. Just don’t download anything from Amazon.
As a bonus, the pihole will also block ads across the rest of your network, and you can choose to be really aggressive with what gets blocked if you want, so you don’t need the piecemeal per-device solutions.
If you do opt to set a pihole up, make sure to port forward 53 to the pihole, so android users get the same Adblock perk (android will default to google dns via 53 to serve up ads without that port forward)
If you then set up a home VPN through your router, you can connect back to it when you are out and about and get the same level of ad protection wherever you go.
https://mullvad.net/en/help/dns-over-https-and-dns-over-tls#ios
I grew up with ads on cable, but I think it was back in the digg days someone said cable started that way too. You paid for cable for shows. Then the ads came. Streaming is almost exactly like cable now, except with the on demand part and how it's over IP.
Yes
Ads were part of over the air but if you bought cable then you had none
Exactly right, it is the greediest model possible people will accept, ads+sub like cable TV and many popular streaming services became are the same garbage following the same enshittification path because art doesn't exist in most TV and movies anymore, it's just a commodity/product in a store.
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