How is this even possible? I thought Youtube and Reddit ads are impossible to block via a DNS filter.
I just wish I knew why the site was down for a week. I had to use a backup DNS for a few hours and when I tried to switch back to NextDNS it actually worked.
Edit: Just had a major DNS leak. Google came right up while NextDNS was active. I guess I’m switching now. This didn’t just start after election day when it was fine for a few years.
I use a two pihole setup, Librewolf with an adguard plug in, and sponsor block for YouTube and it works fairly well.
As for Reddit I do not use it anymore so I do not know.
why do you think it’s dumb? if it works, then it works.
How is this even possible? I thought Youtube and Reddit ads are impossible to block via a DNS filter.
Perhaps proxying through Invidious and or Redlib instances? Given that a Redlib and Invidious URL’s follow the same paths as Reddit & YouTube it’s not hard to replace https://reddit.com/r/SomeSubreddit with https://lib.nextdns.tld/r/SomeSubreddit or https://youtube.com/watch?v=SomeVideoID with https://inv.nextdns.tld/watch?v=SomeVideoID
uhh… wouldn’t that trigger all sorts of https certificate failures?
Depends on how this actually works, I don’t use NextDNS so I can’t tell whether or not from the image provided if this is a browser extension or some sort of app. It’s possible this feature has absolutely nothing to do with DNS but they advertise it as such.
Just gave it a shot, and seems to work just fine.
I don’t know where you found those lists, but on their site they still say it’s not possible to block YT ads.
Just checked on the IOS app they’re in the list of blocklist
