Just rage canceled Paramount+ after seeing the 1 minute of unstoppable ads before each episode.

Then they’ll say people don’t want to pay for content…ffs

  • hemmes@lemmy.worldEnglish
    271·
    1 year ago

    Surprised that no one here mentioned Pi-hole. It doesn’t work for ads on all streaming apps, but pi-hole successfully removes all ads for my Paramount+ subscription.

    • dan@upvote.auEnglish
      71·
      1 year ago

      AdGuard Home is better than PiHole since it supports DNS over HTTPS out-of-the-box, which prevents your ISP from inspecting and modifying your DNS requests/responses. The ISP can do that even if you’re using a custom DNS server, since regular DNS is unencrypted and unauthenticated.

      By default it uses Quad9 via DoH. There’s an easy to use Docker container available for it.

        • CmdrShepard@lemmy.oneEnglish
          4·
          1 year ago

          DNS is like a big phone book telling you that navigating to “google.com” = IP address 75.209.123.456, for example. Your ISP can see these requests and add information to them like ads. Using AdGuard DNS encrypts these requests so they can’t be modified.

      • shutuuplegs@reddthat.comEnglish
        8·
        1 year ago

        Same can be done with Pi-hole. Yes it isn’t ootb, but it is easy to do.

        There are still challenges with doh and isp packet scanning. Even without clear text dns, your isp still knows where you go, if not from the lookups. They still inspect traffic and destinations and can make very detailed inferences, even without https inspection on DoH or other packets.

        Pihole is fully for free. AdH seems to be the same for now, but it is a company running it, they want to make money. I would be a bit worried about this.

        This also doesn’t stop devices from doing their own dns over https. Adguard home and pihole will try to block the DoH locators (canaries) but can’t actually stop a tv from connecting to a known ip if it wants to.

        Don’t get me wrong. I highly recommend something, and adguard home is nice, but I’m not convinced by its the right long term solution nor does either solution provide the sum total.

        • dan@upvote.auEnglish
          1·
          1 year ago

          Same can be done with Pi-hole. Yes it isn’t ootb, but it is easy to do.

          I’m surprised they don’t use it by default though. People usually use solutions like PiHole and AdGuard Home because they want to configure it via a UI rather than at the command line, so needing to do extra manual command-line steps to get DoH working with PiHole isn’t ideal.

          Pihole is fully for free. AdH seems to be the same for now, but it is a company running it, they want to make money. I would be a bit worried about this.

          AdGuard Home is licensed under GNU GPL. They can’t relicense it unless they get permission from everyone that’s contributed code (and if anyone disagrees, their parts must be deleted or rewritten).