yeah, this is actually completely unacceptable default behavior, and I’ve been unable to find a setting to change it. I’m on a metered data connection, so the video buffering without me interacting with it first is literally costing me money. I went straight to the comments to avoid this.
Yup, especially if you’re on a metered connection. An adblocker has to essentially load the ad in the background so it knows what to block. But a PiHole will simply redirect the ad request entirely, so it never even loads in the first place.
yeah, this is actually completely unacceptable default behavior, and I’ve been unable to find a setting to change it. I’m on a metered data connection, so the video buffering without me interacting with it first is literally costing me money. I went straight to the comments to avoid this.
Use a custom DNS to block stuff like this. PiHole, nextdns, adguard etc.
Yup, especially if you’re on a metered connection. An adblocker has to essentially load the ad in the background so it knows what to block. But a PiHole will simply redirect the ad request entirely, so it never even loads in the first place.