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Is there any router side solutions for YouTube adds? I want to block for my family, but they don't see the point.

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?

Thank you, this clears it up really well!

Use both together!

This sounds like something I should look into. I already run pfsense and wanted to look into a pihole, but if I can do it all in pfsense that'll work out even better. Thanks!

Opnsense with unbound dns for me

Watch better creators that don't use their fans as a bank account

As a rule of thumb, I expect that Asus as a business only cares about adbock from two angles:

1. A feature to slap on the box for advertising.
2. A B2B feature for helping business management make workers more productive.

To the first, there's little incentive to ever update the lists after you've bought the device, so it's quickly outdated. To the second, it's like to be far more optimized for Amazon or Newegg, then for Reddit. Between the two, I don't generally expect them to hold a candle to pi-hole and similar software.

You need to flush your local DNS cache after turning that on for it to be 100% effective.

If you are not so fit in this questions is better to install Portmaster, its downloading and run it, not much more to do (blocking or give permissions to connecting to the network to your apps. Maybe sellecting an DNS which fits your needs in the settings. It's way easier to handle than Pi Hole. It even has an SPN (its like a VPN on steroids), but its an paid option.

Yes, its a DNS server. You can set up your device to use whatever DNS server you choose, including pihole.

I've got my VPN connected with pihole as the default DNS server so it works on my phone when I'm not at home.

Yep it does, most VPN software lets you configure the DNS server to be your pihole.

If you care about the privacy of your DNS requests, tunnel the pihole through a VPN too

Ads, as in the stuff that is blocked by ublock and pihole.

Use the pi or whatever little computer that's presumably hosting the pi-hole software to also be a DHCP server (and turn off the DHCP server on ISP's router). It can then advertise itself as the DNS server.

Most cable modem router combos have the ability to turn off the router part and just act as a modem in Bridge mode. If that's an option, you can get your own router to handle local traffic, including dhcp (and thus dns) for all your local devices.

Obviously, this goes against your request not to get your own router, but I thought I'd mention it in case you thought you would have to buy your own modem as well (which you are also free to do, assuming your isp supports customer-owned modems). The modem part can stay the same while having a separate router not controlled by the isp.

If your particular unit doesn't allow that, you can usually still locally override dns settings, though this is more for computers and phones than it is some smart home devices. iPhone and Android phones will let you specify dns ip addresses when you set up a wifi connection. Just edit the wifi config and change to a static ip. You can usually safely use the ip address given to you from dhcp, so make a note of your device ip address before changing it to static, and just use the same values. Then you can manually set the dns ip address.

You can use a second router and pass through the WAN. It’s a bit complicated to explain in a comment, but it’s also not too difficult. Is your ISP ATT?