I'm not technical enough, but why can't pihole do as much as ublock? It's at the router level before anything gets to the browser, it has all the same info the browser will eventually get.

Shouldn't it be theoretically possible to do the same?

[–] teatowel@lemmy.world 4 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (2 children)

uBlock has direct access to the DOM and so can modify what the browser renders. For example, YouTube ads are hosted on the same domains as their videos and so PiHole cannot block them, but uBlock can.

[–] madcaesar@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I don't understand why tho, what is it that let's unblock distinguish ad video vs real video?

[–] RippleEffect@lemm.ee 1 points 9 months ago

Unlock can read the code being sent to your browser and act accordingly. It's much more granular.

Pihole can only see you're going to YouTube.com. It cannot see what YouTube is sending you.

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