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Grandfathered YouTube Premium users will see price increase in January (9to5google.com)
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[–] Adderbox76@lemmy.ca 21 points 2 years ago (21 children)

It's cheaper for me to just bump up my Adguard DNS subscription on my home router. Though I've only done limited testing to see how efficient it handles YT ads. (so far seems to work).

Honestly, the $3 CAD I spend on Adguard DNS through my router has been incredible. I'm flabbergasted when I connect to someone else's Wi-Fi and see what the Internet looks like outside my door walls.

[–] aniki@lemm.ee 3 points 2 years ago (13 children)

why are you paying for DNS?

[–] Adderbox76@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 years ago (11 children)

Never found a free one that works as well at blocking ads and trackers.

[–] sherlockholmez@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

NextDNS is paid but quite versatile. $20/year.

[–] Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 years ago (3 children)

My Pi does the same. 20€/year in electricity + hardware for a docker host.

[–] KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I doubt the Pi costs that much in electricity tbh.

[–] Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)
  1. Depends on the region it's operated in.
  2. I pulled a number out of my behind :D
  3. [Insert 3rd reason here]
[–] KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 2 years ago
  1. I doubt you could get that high, honestly. Even at a high energy cost. They sip power.
  2. Fair enough ;D
  3. Most compelling reason of all, you’ve changed my mind. ;P
[–] sherlockholmez@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I deployed it for a while on my home server, but in the end, the uptime wasn't really satisfactory and I didn't want to lose my ad blocker due to fibre damages due to poor weather or similar issues, so I decided to go for NextDNS.

[–] Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

How can the uptime be not satisfactory.
If it doesnt work, you either set it up incorrecrly or your server/home infrastructure has issues.

If the internet goes out due to bad weather, I think I you have other problems than no ad block, no?

[–] sherlockholmez@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago

Not regular bad weather, but torrential weather. ISPs do have downtime once in a while as well.

I can only do 3 9s of uptime for now, and it makes enough sense for me to pay for the convenience.

[–] Thermal_shocked@lemmy.world -1 points 2 years ago

Good for you? Glad you know everyone's situation.

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