@@glew374imho, it even works against them. When there were a few ads - they stood out and grabbed the attention. People were likely to click. Now, for the most part, they're like white noise. Annoying but ignorable
@@Yorick257 We've reached a pivotal point within society. Corporate greed vs many people who wish to stay away from that greed and then the majority that just accept. How many people do you reckon have a smartphone and just use the default app that comes with the phone and they don't venture to find a better solution? I reckon more rather than less.
Its google fault for not having a good selections of UA-cam red shows. Instead they just whispering you to unblock ad blocker for paying a youtube premium ad blocker. Nice play google.
LTT being nice about the youtube takedown thing on the face of it but ramping up adblocking related content is an excellent strategy, have fun with the can of worms you opened google
I'm pretty sure the NextDNS public DNS doesn't block ads though? It blocks a few trackers, I think, but IIRC you need to use their private DNS (which has limited query number for free users) if you want full adblocking. That's why I use AdGuard public DNS - their public DNS blocks all the ads by default so I don't need to bother with freemium DNS settings and limitations.
@@PranavBhattarai i don't think they do for the public dns. The private one you can configure, but there's a lookup limit. I personally prefer adguard dns because of that
3:22 Business Insider publicly shamed. 177 requests to load one page is insane. 1,239 is stupid. With my setup, I'm only getting 68 requests, which is still too many.
quite a lot of them might just be external links, social media requests, maybe something the devs needed to pull from xyz for the website. not that surprising learning web development made me realise how much fuking bloat even a simple website ends up having somehow.
blocking ads is like having a "no solicitors" sign on your door. sorry that I dont want to waste my time and energy dealing with someone that I have no interest in patronizing. If I wanted your services, I would come to you.
Bad take, it's more like going into a store and not wanting advertisements in that store. You're only being served ads if you are using a service. Not saying I'm pro-ads, just don't act like they are completely unjustified.
@@Pwpq0083 now that you mention the store analogy, I realize we have (location dependant) legislation on what and how advertisements can be made for physical stuff and places. I wonder how much there's written about internet ads
@@Pwpq0083 Worse take. You don't _go_ anywhere. The store sends its information to your home. All of this operates within the realm of your private property. Legally, jormungand72 describes a more useful, if incomplete, analogy.
@@VaradiioThen let's tell the whole story: You are requesting a free newspaper but get advertisements with it, because the free newspaper needs to pay for writers, paper, printing machines, warehouse space, etc. If you now prevent the advertisements to get to you, the companies using the ad space won't pay the newspaper company anymore. Now the newspaper company has two choices: 1. Go out of business 2. Switch to a subscription model, so they can ensure that they actually get the payment Congratulations you just argued for replacing the free web with subscription models
Some of us call this "Firefox", but seeing how many websites like UA-cam are trying to bypass the usual adblocker, I'm considering this more and more everyday.
for myself, firefox+uB has had many interruptions to playback for the last wk, so I'm trying what I do on mobile and.. still getting playback interruptions on this very video with uB disabled here.
Ads are fine, that’s what keeping this free, but don’t shove on my face put it on the side in a separate area. If I care about what I am seeing I will click on it.
The thing about ads is that right now they're not just annoying, they're often for scams or other malicious sites or are presented in a way that just completely ruins the actual user experience. Because the people making these decisions see space on a page without an ad as just leaving money on the table, you might as well just ruin the website.
@@Exarian I completely agree with you at least as far as mobile goes. Browsing the web on mobile feels like you're constantly smacked in the face and it's actually difficult to read what you're trying to read. On PC, I don't personally have that much of an issue- and also remember the dark days of the 90s when even legitimate websites thought constant pop ups were a great way to get you to want something.
@@Ren99510on this note it’s what gets me mad. I’m a free user who holds my phone while I’m doing stuff in the house. Do you know how often I click on ads and sometimes when I’m confused!? And I find myself denying or worse sometimes accidentally allowing cookies for websites I never ever wanted to be on! Imagine giving your data out to sites you never visited just because UA-cam decides to make the ad touch space massive so they can get their clicks! Don’t mind ads, sick of how they’re implemented. Betting ads annoy me the most on principle.
I think I've heard about DNS enough to understand pretty well what it is, but I think the phone book analogy is great and probably the best thing to use to explain it to someone
Make Internet Great Again I've been using AdGuard DNS for like a decade, originally on my smartphone before Unlimited data (to keep data usage in check), but now on everything (that I can) to cut out all the needless crap
Ghostery for like, 15 years for me. I am amazed when I see someone running a browser with no ad blocker. how TF can they stand to see all that garbage everywhere
Changing to encrypted DNS servers (ad blocking or not) also helps protect against certain types of malware attacks. Unfortunately Windows 10 doesn't do encrypted DNS without a third party tool. Frankly all DNS should be encrypted DNS by default at this point.
@@pedromain Apparently it requires the user to add a registry key to get it working under Windows 10. On my 10 machines there is simply no UI for it otherwise.
I previously used dnscrypt for that task before browsers added their own separate dns piping. Got around corporate's often broken dns results just fine too.
Another potential downside is close to what you said at the end but if the website breaks due to something that was filtered out it would be much more difficult to fix with an adblocking DNS than it would be to fix with an adblocker on your local device. It seems to be a good tool to have in your toolchest though.
You would need to temporarily change your settings back to a non ad blocking dns which wouldn't be that hard. You could also setup something like Pi hole or Adguard home to whitelist the blocked domains that are breaking things. That is a little bit more advanced though since you have to setup your own server.
yep that is what i use!! and it is insane. Quad9🤝 Artix-dinit with cachyos kernel and patches + LXQt and booster initramfs is genuinly so fast. like 2 second start up and apps are so responsive!
I generally prefer AdGuard DNS. Annoyingly, my country require it to be Secure DNS or they can mess with it, so on Linux I have to use Safing Portmaster or run an AdGuard Home instance on the device to do so. Very annoying.
Just stop using chrome. It's proven that google wants you to watch ads and intentionally slows non chrome browsers down. Firefox is better and allows adblock to work
Yes but chrome allows users to sync between devices which is evidently what many, many, many people prefer to do these days. Look at Apple, it's a cult of synchronicity.
@@Snorlaxiian thanks for telling me you're not a Firefox user without saying it. Mozilla added a sync option ages ago. And even if you don't want to use that, there are sync add-ons like floccus that work across different browsers.
@@khalishakhairani4795 I don't notice a difference in FF vs Chrome speed. Unless you are talking about using FF on YT, which google intentionally slows non chrome browsers down
I personally have a pihole set up in both places I live in and ad blocking extensions in all my browsers. On top of that, I always install an ad blocker on every PC I set up for people.
The main problem with DNS blocking/poisoning is it is so low level that it makes it a lot harder to diagnose issues. Still the best option for phones but desktop/laptop machines have lots of edge cases where the ability to block stuff at a more refined level makes for a far better and safer experience. The phone is for use while sitting on the toilet whereas a desktop/laptop is for real work.
This approach's weakness is ads hosted on the same server as actually desired content. Using a Proxy Autoconfig (PAC file) instead to filter on either the domain, hostname, or URL path can slice away unwanted content more precisely.
I had to do a hiring assessment for an advertising company and among other things, they asked me to do a series of web banners. I haven't senn a web ad for 15 years, ever since I discovered adblockers. This was one of the most amusing reasons for failing at a job test.
Having the DNS service filter out ads would take a big load off the local system while internet browsing, whether or not the browser uses ad blocking. Never thought of this before. Thanks for the heads up.
@@SkinUpMonkey I know. I just do not have the bandwidth to actually do that. My upload is fairly limited and the benefits of having a ad reduced internet would not outweigh the downsides of having to go through my home internet. I could also host this DNS for cheap somewhere, but... Well... I work from home, so I do not compute and most of the times, when I am outside, I don't need the internet, because I am on a playground with my kid or something of that sort. In short: Lots of effort for questionable benefit.
@@blunderingfoolyes. It is nice having Brave on the phone and it helps a lot. Another factor why the VPN would be overkill. It would only really help in Apps, as the browser is already filtering a lot of stuff.
First time I paid attention to the credits on these and glad to see John Martin is still around! Isn't he one of the absolute OGs? Hope we see him again hosting some time
suggestion for a video topic: Why are ads on youtube treated so differently to ads on TV? You can use DVR to to skip through ads, and some TV providers even offer "skip the ads" buttons or options that can just... skip the ads. also, ads on youtube are often jarring, suddenly interrupting a video in a spot that definitely was not meant to be a break in the video. no one likes that sort of thing. why force it?
I prefer using adblock. Yes, it took more resources from my device, but if it means I can read through articles without having those blank boxes between every 2 paragraphs, it's worth it.
We bought our first house in 2020(the only halfway decent thing to happen in that god awful hellscape of a rotting pile of trash year) and last fall we actually got a phone book dropped off at our door. It was actually really cool because i hadn’t seen one for years. When I was a kid we were really tight on money and I don’t remember having a home phone until I was like 9-10 Soo around 1998-99ish. And after we did get one waiting for the phone book to come out and finding our name in it. Now I can’t remember the last time we had a home phone since everyone has cells so I was surprised when we got the phone book last year
I still use my good old trusted Pihole docker to block ads instead of relying on 3rd party service. I can specify which computer in the household gets which level of adblocking and I can centrally manage the settings without needing to set it on each device.
Ahh!!! Don't click the list if you don't like ads. I was bombarded by what I can only call "Discouraging" when trying to learn about switching DNS to avoid intrusive ads.... 😑
While I despise the ever more intrusive ads, I love the ads. Why?! Because I love to click on ads in ways that messes up their algos. "Pose-clicking" I call it. Currently I get alot* of ads for toys and such for a young girl, for industrial equipment, and ads for kitchen appliances. They have no idea! *Yeah, that's how I spell it. One word to mean "a large quantity or large amount."
Yep, it is. PiHole is a filtering DNS that you host on your own machine, while those mentioned in this video are public equivalent (useful eg. on your phone when you are not connected to your home network, or if you don't want an extra device).
I notice my browser still wastes time trying to find those tracking and advertising servers. I feel a good ad blocker is still important and I am ready to leave Chrome if uBlock stops working (properly). I like the double protection, though.
if you watch the network panel while on UA-cam you can see various api calls and calls to advertising services, you can block them through dev tools, though you have to keep it open and it is somewhat crude, and it also doesn't block ads at the start of the video but yeah dns or some sort of local proxy is a good idea, but how about flipping it on its head, if you know the ip address of the streaming server, then just block everything but that especially if you are watching through a tv app where you won't be doing anything else
Some VPN apps can block ads through DNS, you can use one of those on mobile and then if it breaks something, it's faster to temporarily disable it! Or exclude certain apps from it that aren't compatible
It would've been great if you mentioned Pi-Hole, while yes it may need some technical knowledge and time to set up, it's not that hard and absolutely worth it.
@@sirk3v Not technically. A DNS is an actual server. That’s what the ‘S’ stands for. People use a lot of things interchangeably a lot, but they are still wrong. Plus, this is an education tech video. They should use the right description. Who knows, a networking student or someone studying for the Network certification could be watching.
@@shekool18 a dns server is just one implementation of a dns system,...another implementation would be the old days of phone books....functionally the same,just implemented with different technologies, what do you think?
@@sirk3v Yeah, the phone book example is analogous. Maybe things have changed a bit since the last time I was in the field. But this video did specifically describe the function of a Domain Name Server. Again, the phone book example was to help people understand how a DNS works.
Well, there's your problems, the thing is most of the websites I visit spends a lot of money and work for the content I get from them and they depend entirely on the ads shown on their website. Now if I use something like those ad blocker or ad blocking DNS then won't I be stopping their only source of earning ? If there's no ad showing means the owner of the websites will eventually fed up and will stop providing content, so in a way it means "no ad, no content"
Sadly iPhones don’t always respect local DNS and will bypass it for either DoT or DoH. I run Pihole and have it set on my router. However on my iPhone it is hit or miss as to whether ads will load or not. It is also hit or miss if my phone will load local pages which have internal URLs set in pihole. Furthermore, when o. A different VLAN it will not load these internal pages at all but only the ones publicly accessible. Meanwhile, with my Windows systems it all works just fine. I have turned off of the privacy settings in iOS that would trigger DoT or DoH, but still have issues. Edge on iOS appears to be just slightly more reliable but still fails when crossing VLANs. Pi hole records that the phone made a request and sent the reply however the load failure message comes from cloudflare rather than the browser as for external dns I use cloudflare.
If I set up and ad filtering DNS on my router or even in the settings on my laptop, there is no easy way to bypass it temporarily if for example, a streaming service or a website refuses to load. Is there any work around for situations like that?
I have to disable my adblocking DNS on my phone when I travel, because it doesn't place nice with hotel/airport WiFi. Every time, my reaction when I use my phone without it is "Holy crap, you guys actually use your phones like this every day? HOW?!"
Also, how about UA-cam not throttling certain videos... Amazing how from 5 to 7 PM daily (CST) 4k@60fps videos are limited to 720p and 1080p down to 480p! And that's with a 50MB download speed...
I dod this a long time ago and it didn't really seem to help. I mean it did sorta. I still get a lot of empty boxes on web pages but there are still plenty of ads that get through. Plus it breaks the ability to click on an ad if you say Google airpods or something and the top results are like best buy or Amazon or whatever and you click on them it will fail to load because that's technically an ad. So you have to go to each website and search within it for said product. Maybe that's not a legitimate complaint but it seemed to break more stuff than it fixed. I dunno, maybe they are better nowadays. I just remember being kinda disappointed. Still am I guess as I never changed it back and am still technically using it. Maybe you gotta keep up on it.
I can't enable Resizable Bar because Windows is on a MBR partition. I changed it to a GBT partition, nuked it, but couldn't reinstall Windows because it is now GBT partition. And I can't seem to figure this out, Google searches, UA-cam and Windows forums have not been successful. Any advice?
I feel that Google's blood is boiling right now. That big creators are starting to talk more and more about blocking their ads.
I hope so.
@@glew374imho, it even works against them. When there were a few ads - they stood out and grabbed the attention. People were likely to click. Now, for the most part, they're like white noise. Annoying but ignorable
@@Yorick257 We've reached a pivotal point within society. Corporate greed vs many people who wish to stay away from that greed and then the majority that just accept.
How many people do you reckon have a smartphone and just use the default app that comes with the phone and they don't venture to find a better solution? I reckon more rather than less.
Should point out the DNS blocking doesn't block UA-cam since the DNS is the same
Its google fault for not having a good selections of UA-cam red shows. Instead they just whispering you to unblock ad blocker for paying a youtube premium ad blocker. Nice play google.
hey, just wanted to let you know I appreciate the calmer voice. UA-cam is flooded with yelling these days and this was refreshing.
You're right!. This video was amazing for that.
True. But I am also waiting for the music-free video. At least no music when a host is speaking.
I often see comments like this, but honestly I have never seen any screaming. For tech stuff, is there any channel that actually yell at you?
linus on the wan show: we won't start a war with youtube
also LTT:
dns level adblocking doesn't work on yt as the ads are also hosted on yt
dbrand ad with fuckyoutube to get 10% ;-) also LTT not starting a war
I think they’re testing a theory…
YT and Twitch started it.
Yes
LTT being nice about the youtube takedown thing on the face of it but ramping up adblocking related content is an excellent strategy, have fun with the can of worms you opened google
Mozilla has built in option for that, change in setting on max protection and chose nextdns. Will improve load speed significantly.
I'm pretty sure the NextDNS public DNS doesn't block ads though? It blocks a few trackers, I think, but IIRC you need to use their private DNS (which has limited query number for free users) if you want full adblocking. That's why I use AdGuard public DNS - their public DNS blocks all the ads by default so I don't need to bother with freemium DNS settings and limitations.
thanks I didn't know that !
Does nextdns block ads?
@@PranavBhattarai i don't think they do for the public dns. The private one you can configure, but there's a lookup limit. I personally prefer adguard dns because of that
@@PranavBhattaraiadguard ftw
if google was able to actually weed out scam ads, they probably wouldn't have needed to go to war against adblock in the first place
They get paid more by scammers apparently
But I want a "plasma torch" that "doesn't require any gas", yet miraculously generates a foot long butane flame...
@@spastictuesdays340 thats nothing. I want that car that works with water
All ads are scam ads.
Nah Google is still an evil garbage company and I will never not take an opportunity to deprive them of revenue
If the CIA and FBI recommends me to use a friggin adblock I will be using an adblock. Google can suck it
Cause they are so trustworthy 😂
@@xBintu you should try using the internet without ad block :)
@@KaizCh It's impossible unless you visit the same sites that you know don't have that many ads.
3:22 Business Insider publicly shamed. 177 requests to load one page is insane. 1,239 is stupid. With my setup, I'm only getting 68 requests, which is still too many.
quite a lot of them might just be external links, social media requests, maybe something the devs needed to pull from xyz for the website. not that surprising learning web development made me realise how much fuking bloat even a simple website ends up having somehow.
blocking ads is like having a "no solicitors" sign on your door.
sorry that I dont want to waste my time and energy dealing with someone that I have no interest in patronizing. If I wanted your services, I would come to you.
Bad take, it's more like going into a store and not wanting advertisements in that store.
You're only being served ads if you are using a service. Not saying I'm pro-ads, just don't act like they are completely unjustified.
@@Pwpq0083 now that you mention the store analogy, I realize we have (location dependant) legislation on what and how advertisements can be made for physical stuff and places. I wonder how much there's written about internet ads
@@Pwpq0083 Worse take. You don't _go_ anywhere. The store sends its information to your home. All of this operates within the realm of your private property. Legally, jormungand72 describes a more useful, if incomplete, analogy.
@@VaradiioThen let's tell the whole story: You are requesting a free newspaper but get advertisements with it, because the free newspaper needs to pay for writers, paper, printing machines, warehouse space, etc. If you now prevent the advertisements to get to you, the companies using the ad space won't pay the newspaper company anymore. Now the newspaper company has two choices:
1. Go out of business
2. Switch to a subscription model, so they can ensure that they actually get the payment
Congratulations you just argued for replacing the free web with subscription models
Yeah, that 'no solicitors' sign doesn't work either. The dumbasses that go door to door selling crap would get a better job if they could read.
Some of us call this "Firefox", but seeing how many websites like UA-cam are trying to bypass the usual adblocker, I'm considering this more and more everyday.
Dns blocking does not work for YT lmao
@@lussor1 sad, but true.
@@lussor1Just use ReVanced
for myself, firefox+uB has had many interruptions to playback for the last wk, so I'm trying what I do on mobile and.. still getting playback interruptions on this very video with uB disabled here.
Ublock origin always works
Ads are fine, that’s what keeping this free, but don’t shove on my face put it on the side in a separate area. If I care about what I am seeing I will click on it.
based
A lot of people want an ad-free internet and don’t realize that you can’t have an ad-free internet without having to pay every site you visit
The thing about ads is that right now they're not just annoying, they're often for scams or other malicious sites or are presented in a way that just completely ruins the actual user experience. Because the people making these decisions see space on a page without an ad as just leaving money on the table, you might as well just ruin the website.
@@Exarian I completely agree with you at least as far as mobile goes. Browsing the web on mobile feels like you're constantly smacked in the face and it's actually difficult to read what you're trying to read. On PC, I don't personally have that much of an issue- and also remember the dark days of the 90s when even legitimate websites thought constant pop ups were a great way to get you to want something.
@@Ren99510on this note it’s what gets me mad. I’m a free user who holds my phone while I’m doing stuff in the house. Do you know how often I click on ads and sometimes when I’m confused!? And I find myself denying or worse sometimes accidentally allowing cookies for websites I never ever wanted to be on! Imagine giving your data out to sites you never visited just because UA-cam decides to make the ad touch space massive so they can get their clicks! Don’t mind ads, sick of how they’re implemented. Betting ads annoy me the most on principle.
I think I've heard about DNS enough to understand pretty well what it is, but I think the phone book analogy is great and probably the best thing to use to explain it to someone
the best one i have come up with is.
me to internet - do you know y ?
internet - I know a guy who knows the guy.
Make Internet Great Again
I've been using AdGuard DNS for like a decade, originally on my smartphone before Unlimited data (to keep data usage in check), but now on everything (that I can) to cut out all the needless crap
Ghostery for like, 15 years for me. I am amazed when I see someone running a browser with no ad blocker. how TF can they stand to see all that garbage everywhere
Same do not use my data for crap ads no thanks. Also Firefox and ad blocker as well on my phone and brave browser for UA-cam cleans allot of nonsense.
how is nextdns?
MIGA sounds funny
@@ManoMamyte bro 😂
Changing to encrypted DNS servers (ad blocking or not) also helps protect against certain types of malware attacks. Unfortunately Windows 10 doesn't do encrypted DNS without a third party tool. Frankly all DNS should be encrypted DNS by default at this point.
Are you sure W10 can't do encrypted DNS? Is at Manual DNS settings, you just need to add the https adress.
@@pedromain Apparently it requires the user to add a registry key to get it working under Windows 10. On my 10 machines there is simply no UI for it otherwise.
I previously used dnscrypt for that task before browsers added their own separate dns piping. Got around corporate's often broken dns results just fine too.
Another potential downside is close to what you said at the end but if the website breaks due to something that was filtered out it would be much more difficult to fix with an adblocking DNS than it would be to fix with an adblocker on your local device. It seems to be a good tool to have in your toolchest though.
You would need to temporarily change your settings back to a non ad blocking dns which wouldn't be that hard. You could also setup something like Pi hole or Adguard home to whitelist the blocked domains that are breaking things. That is a little bit more advanced though since you have to setup your own server.
2:10 skip ad
Quad9 + Linux ( no telemetry stealing bandwidth ), fast as hell. Private too with TLS.
yep that is what i use!! and it is insane. Quad9🤝 Artix-dinit with cachyos kernel and patches + LXQt and booster initramfs is genuinly so fast. like 2 second start up and apps are so responsive!
I love NextDNS
If your bandwidth is being impacted by telemetry, you’ve got bigger issues than your OS and DNS provider.
@@lussor1+1
I generally prefer AdGuard DNS. Annoyingly, my country require it to be Secure DNS or they can mess with it, so on Linux I have to use Safing Portmaster or run an AdGuard Home instance on the device to do so. Very annoying.
Please never stop making this type of videos
Just stop using chrome. It's proven that google wants you to watch ads and intentionally slows non chrome browsers down. Firefox is better and allows adblock to work
Yes but chrome allows users to sync between devices which is evidently what many, many, many people prefer to do these days. Look at Apple, it's a cult of synchronicity.
@Snorlaxiian Firefox has Sync, too...
@@Snorlaxiian thanks for telling me you're not a Firefox user without saying it. Mozilla added a sync option ages ago. And even if you don't want to use that, there are sync add-ons like floccus that work across different browsers.
Firefox are slow as hell. Chromium based on apple webkit safari that makes it more stable and faster to load web pages.
@@khalishakhairani4795 I don't notice a difference in FF vs Chrome speed. Unless you are talking about using FF on YT, which google intentionally slows non chrome browsers down
I personally have a pihole set up in both places I live in and ad blocking extensions in all my browsers. On top of that, I always install an ad blocker on every PC I set up for people.
The main problem with DNS blocking/poisoning is it is so low level that it makes it a lot harder to diagnose issues. Still the best option for phones but desktop/laptop machines have lots of edge cases where the ability to block stuff at a more refined level makes for a far better and safer experience. The phone is for use while sitting on the toilet whereas a desktop/laptop is for real work.
Can you give an example of when you want to block on a refined level?
I’ve been using an Adblock dns for like 2 years and I truly have never even stopped to ask wtf a dns is
This approach's weakness is ads hosted on the same server as actually desired content. Using a Proxy Autoconfig (PAC file) instead to filter on either the domain, hostname, or URL path can slice away unwanted content more precisely.
watch this whole video before youtube removes it
Holy crap this video was USEFUL! THANK YOU SO MUCH
I had to do a hiring assessment for an advertising company and among other things, they asked me to do a series of web banners.
I haven't senn a web ad for 15 years, ever since I discovered adblockers. This was one of the most amusing reasons for failing at a job test.
Well, then the answer is: unless you want to advertise to tech illiterate people, don't do banners.
this was very easy to understand, and helpful :)
good job!
Dont forget
Your system has a DNS cache
ipconfig /flushdns
ipconfig /release
ipconifg /renew
netsh int ip reset resetlog.txt
Run - CMD (hit enter) - ipconfig /flushdns (hit enter) - Thank me later
I love how all of this is unfolding
I really like the purple background. Looks great in dark mode. That is all.
Ned flanders
I wonder if he can recommend any good left handed website browsers? 🤔🤔🤔
Omg yes definitely 💯
smart sexy Flanders.
Okily dokily doo!
I knew seen this guy somewhere 😂
Thanks for explaining this Riley!
Quick guys, download this video incase someonw decides saying malicous ads are bad is against TOS
Having the DNS service filter out ads would take a big load off the local system while internet browsing, whether or not the browser uses ad blocking. Never thought of this before. Thanks for the heads up.
Downloading now, cheers.
Congratulations!! You've won a free iPod!!!
Running a Pi-Hole at home is great. Only problem: When I am outside of my WiFi all these ads are coming back and I can see how ugly the internet is...
You can setup a vpn on the same system which you can connect to when you out and about.
@@SkinUpMonkey I know. I just do not have the bandwidth to actually do that. My upload is fairly limited and the benefits of having a ad reduced internet would not outweigh the downsides of having to go through my home internet. I could also host this DNS for cheap somewhere, but... Well... I work from home, so I do not compute and most of the times, when I am outside, I don't need the internet, because I am on a playground with my kid or something of that sort. In short: Lots of effort for questionable benefit.
@@christianbaer2897 ya if don't have good Internet I can see it being a bad experience.
The Brave and Vivaldi mobile clients both have great adblockers included.
@@blunderingfoolyes. It is nice having Brave on the phone and it helps a lot. Another factor why the VPN would be overkill. It would only really help in Apps, as the browser is already filtering a lot of stuff.
The Irony of you linking me to a website that wants to share my information with 1575 "trusted" partners is not lost on me.
First time I paid attention to the credits on these and glad to see John Martin is still around! Isn't he one of the absolute OGs? Hope we see him again hosting some time
John has been working remote for LTT for a few years now.
Who's that, I'm watching Linus before he started LTT and don't remember that name?
This has made UA-cam half useable on mobile devices
suggestion for a video topic: Why are ads on youtube treated so differently to ads on TV? You can use DVR to to skip through ads, and some TV providers even offer "skip the ads" buttons or options that can just... skip the ads.
also, ads on youtube are often jarring, suddenly interrupting a video in a spot that definitely was not meant to be a break in the video. no one likes that sort of thing. why force it?
I prefer using adblock. Yes, it took more resources from my device, but if it means I can read through articles without having those blank boxes between every 2 paragraphs, it's worth it.
I didn’t know about this, thanks for the info
We bought our first house in 2020(the only halfway decent thing to happen in that god awful hellscape of a rotting pile of trash year) and last fall we actually got a phone book dropped off at our door. It was actually really cool because i hadn’t seen one for years. When I was a kid we were really tight on money and I don’t remember having a home phone until I was like 9-10 Soo around 1998-99ish. And after we did get one waiting for the phone book to come out and finding our name in it. Now I can’t remember the last time we had a home phone since everyone has cells so I was surprised when we got the phone book last year
Another hot one from The Rizzler!
2:30 I actually took a sip of water out of an LTT water bottle at that moment, lmao
On my android phone I use hosts file for that purpose. Works everywhere, not just in my home wifi and works for every app.
not the Jane Doe bit in the sponsor portion 😭
"Relationship: Spouse"
Man after their main channel, now this one? The audacity!
Please continue, lol.
Thanks for the video!
I still use my good old trusted Pihole docker to block ads instead of relying on 3rd party service. I can specify which computer in the household gets which level of adblocking and I can centrally manage the settings without needing to set it on each device.
Google has the chance to do the funniest thing of all time
Ahh!!! Don't click the list if you don't like ads. I was bombarded by what I can only call "Discouraging" when trying to learn about switching DNS to avoid intrusive ads.... 😑
Here to see it before it gets taken down
If I use ad-blocking DNS *_and_* uBlock Origin, will the empty ad spaces get cleaned up?
Ublock is the key for that
@@lussor1 So, the answer is yes?
theres a ubrave github repo for that, you want to either use that or zap it with ublock
Here before this is taken down
non intrusive ads are okay for me, a lot of apps however have intrusive non skippable ads that will not let you use the app if you don't watch the ad
While I despise the ever more intrusive ads, I love the ads. Why?!
Because I love to click on ads in ways that messes up their algos. "Pose-clicking" I call it.
Currently I get alot* of ads for toys and such for a young girl, for industrial equipment, and ads for kitchen appliances. They have no idea!
*Yeah, that's how I spell it. One word to mean "a large quantity or large amount."
this this is what i needed
Isn't that basically what Pi-Hole does ?
Yep, it is. PiHole is a filtering DNS that you host on your own machine, while those mentioned in this video are public equivalent
(useful eg. on your phone when you are not connected to your home network, or if you don't want an extra device).
Yes, and there are plenty of alternatives to pihole.
With the distinction that a pihole can also increase browsing speed because it caches previous DNS requests locally.
@@piquat1 Yeah, but your OS also caches what a filtering DNS server gives it.
pihole requires an upstream DNS to work.
Love that the website they link to in order to read about the DNS servers to block ads is so full of ads my phone could barely load the page…
Don't worry I do remember phone books , born in 89
I notice my browser still wastes time trying to find those tracking and advertising servers. I feel a good ad blocker is still important and I am ready to leave Chrome if uBlock stops working (properly). I like the double protection, though.
Chrome doesn't care about your DNS settings. It's recommended to wrap DNS filter with VPN.
The website listed here in the description for AdBlocking DNS has lots of Ads on it. 😂
if you watch the network panel while on UA-cam you can see various api calls and calls to advertising services, you can block them through dev tools, though you have to keep it open and it is somewhat crude, and it also doesn't block ads at the start of the video
but yeah dns or some sort of local proxy is a good idea, but how about flipping it on its head, if you know the ip address of the streaming server, then just block everything but that especially if you are watching through a tv app where you won't be doing anything else
In here before the video is taken down.
glad i got to see this before it got the strike :D
Watch this before this also goes down 😅
A lot of Asus routers come with a quick setting that let's u pick ad blocking DNS
Some VPN apps can block ads through DNS, you can use one of those on mobile and then if it breaks something, it's faster to temporarily disable it! Or exclude certain apps from it that aren't compatible
If you have the skills to set it up: pi-hole and unbound will make your browser experience far, far better.
Someone just needs to invent an internet DVR.
That was pretty good. But I thought that you would also explain how I can view content my ISP blocked by changing to idk Cloudflare DNS.
It would've been great if you mentioned Pi-Hole, while yes it may need some technical knowledge and time to set up, it's not that hard and absolutely worth it.
Isn't ironic and funny that there were ads on every site that was linked below that was teaching about adblocking DNS
DNS stands for ‘Domain Name Server.’ Not ‘System.’
umm.....i think both works...i've seen them been used interchangeably in a number of places
@@sirk3v Not technically. A DNS is an actual server. That’s what the ‘S’ stands for. People use a lot of things interchangeably a lot, but they are still wrong. Plus, this is an education tech video. They should use the right description. Who knows, a networking student or someone studying for the Network certification could be watching.
@@shekool18 a dns server is just one implementation of a dns system,...another implementation would be the old days of phone books....functionally the same,just implemented with different technologies, what do you think?
@@sirk3v Yeah, the phone book example is analogous. Maybe things have changed a bit since the last time I was in the field. But this video did specifically describe the function of a Domain Name Server. Again, the phone book example was to help people understand how a DNS works.
Well, there's your problems, the thing is most of the websites I visit spends a lot of money and work for the content I get from them and they depend entirely on the ads shown on their website. Now if I use something like those ad blocker or ad blocking DNS then won't I be stopping their only source of earning ? If there's no ad showing means the owner of the websites will eventually fed up and will stop providing content, so in a way it means "no ad, no content"
Also: GRC's DNS Benchmark
I remember try to find my dad's name in yellow pages.
Dns adblockers, pi-hole and ublock origin
A good trio
Sadly iPhones don’t always respect local DNS and will bypass it for either DoT or DoH. I run Pihole and have it set on my router. However on my iPhone it is hit or miss as to whether ads will load or not. It is also hit or miss if my phone will load local pages which have internal URLs set in pihole. Furthermore, when o. A different VLAN it will not load these internal pages at all but only the ones publicly accessible. Meanwhile, with my Windows systems it all works just fine. I have turned off of the privacy settings in iOS that would trigger DoT or DoH, but still have issues. Edge on iOS appears to be just slightly more reliable but still fails when crossing VLANs. Pi hole records that the phone made a request and sent the reply however the load failure message comes from cloudflare rather than the browser as for external dns I use cloudflare.
will this slow down my connection when im gaming?
so this bypasses youtube ads too?
is it free?
Pihole was the best thing. You don't even need a raspberry pi
Loving ControlD
Is the makeuseof link in the description down for anyone else?
If I set up and ad filtering DNS on my router or even in the settings on my laptop, there is no easy way to bypass it temporarily if for example, a streaming service or a website refuses to load. Is there any work around for situations like that?
I have to disable my adblocking DNS on my phone when I travel, because it doesn't place nice with hotel/airport WiFi. Every time, my reaction when I use my phone without it is "Holy crap, you guys actually use your phones like this every day? HOW?!"
Great tip
Also, how about UA-cam not throttling certain videos...
Amazing how from 5 to 7 PM daily (CST) 4k@60fps videos are limited to 720p and 1080p down to 480p! And that's with a 50MB download speed...
You have just revolutionised my internet surfing. Thank you, kind sir.
No video takedown/strike yet? Don't tell UA-cam
the good thing is that your knowledge never disappoints us
I dod this a long time ago and it didn't really seem to help. I mean it did sorta. I still get a lot of empty boxes on web pages but there are still plenty of ads that get through. Plus it breaks the ability to click on an ad if you say Google airpods or something and the top results are like best buy or Amazon or whatever and you click on them it will fail to load because that's technically an ad. So you have to go to each website and search within it for said product. Maybe that's not a legitimate complaint but it seemed to break more stuff than it fixed. I dunno, maybe they are better nowadays. I just remember being kinda disappointed. Still am I guess as I never changed it back and am still technically using it. Maybe you gotta keep up on it.
I do my own DNS. I run pihole along with unbound on a VM.
I think I doubled my internet speed
what's up with the feedback noise that ends around 3:39?
I can't enable Resizable Bar because Windows is on a MBR partition. I changed it to a GBT partition, nuked it, but couldn't reinstall Windows because it is now GBT partition. And I can't seem to figure this out, Google searches, UA-cam and Windows forums have not been successful. Any advice?
is there any way to use dns over https in android?