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Block YouTube ads on AppleTV by decrypting and stripping ads from Profobuf (2022)
Apple TV and iOS YouTube ads are not blocked by Pi-hole, so I researched this and discovered a flaw in Protobuf that allows me to restrict YouTube ads.
I can see it now: A Wi-Fi AP on a hardware LAN that is isolated from everything else and dedicated to these gadgets, and runs through the adblocker and traps hard-coded DNS queries to 1.1.1.1 and 9.9.9.9 and others (I’ll have to explore this) so YouTube on my TV doesn’t sneakily bypass Pi-Hole any DNS-level blocker. Stop Microsoft from spying on you Thanks to web-browser and DNS-level adblockers (i.e. Pi-hole), it’s commonplace to block bad sites, crypto-miners, fingerprinters, trackers, remarketers, banners, pop-ups, fake tech-support scam alerts, and all manner of unscrupulousness designed to take advantage of you. Protobuf introduction (Credit: Data Science Blog)As a consequence of being able to see unencrypted traffic from my iPhone, I’m taken aback by the sheer amount of tracking information laid bare; It’s like I have electrodes on my head and chest while I’m running on a treadmill and a bunch of scientists in white lab coats with clipboards are standing shoulder-to-shoulder recording everything about my internals.
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