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Streaming Ads Are So Much Worse Than Traditional Ad Breaks
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this post was submitted on 27 Feb 2024
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In the end streaming service became like the old days when we watch TV but worse
Worse? Clearly you don't remember the days when if you got home at 6:15, you would miss half of your show. Or the days where the only option if you wanted a specific channel was to subscribe to an expensive bundle that included 8 other channels you didn't want.
Advertising has gotten so much worse, but everything being on-demand is miles better than what we used to have.
Never dealt with missing shows, as I learned how to set my VCR to timer record when I was like nine
Ah, kids and their fancy new VCRs. Back in my day you had to be on time and make the kids wiggle the rabbit ears just right.
But the good news is now we can block ads although it's hard to setup at first especially if you want routing all network in your home
For laptop, pc, or smartphone it's easy...just install ublock (for browser) or Adguard (for whole protection)
I built a DNS proxy that filters all third-party ads, but ads for the same service (e.g. Paramount advertising its own shows) are hosted by that service, meaning they get through.
Pi-hole?
Pi-Hole is a local dns proxy that filters ads. It's exactly what was described above, and doesn't work for ads hosted on the service you want the content from. If you block those ads, you lose the content.
I’m aware. I have two. I was asking if that’s what they built or if it was something else.
Yep, it was Pi-hole!
Thats not exactly good news, it's still a cat and mouse game but thankfully the ad block devs are more motivated than the streaming providers currently.