Homebrew YouTube ad blocker?

[Cleish85]

Is there anyway to ad an ad blocker for YouTube on the Wii U?

 

[FAST6191]

Don't know if there is any way to do it on hardware but I am mainly here to wonder if you could get a version of youtube-dl ( https://ytdl-org.github.io/youtube-dl/index.html ) or equivalent loaded on the Wii U. Or you could possibly have a raspberry pi or something with a copy of youtube-dl on it and have it serve up the videos from there -- would also stop any buffering issues and give you the option to skip forward and back without having to load again.

 

[tech3475]

The easiest way may be a DNS based adblocker.

 

[Uiaad]

you could trying a dns provider that blocks ads or as @FAST6191 says a PI running PI-Hole that filters ads via DNS

 

[FAST6191]

Does DNS stuff work for youtube? My PC browser based stuff has trouble from time to time and I would have thought the rather more imprecise nature of DNS would not have made that better.

Also I was thinking make the pi a media server of sorts that grabs videos upon request rather than some kind of network fiddling device.

 

[Cleish85]

Thanks for the help folks I'll look into all of your advice!

 

[Phantom-Ant]

if you watch youtube videos on N3DS you don't have to install an ad-block