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  • You'd probably want to look into blocking traffic on your network using pihole or if its possible to reconfigure your xbox network settings and point it at adblocking DNS servers such as AdGuard:

    https://adguard-dns.io/en/public-dns.html

     
        
    Xbox
    Press the Xbox button on your controller to open the guide.
    Select Profile & system → Settings → General → Network Settings.
    From the Network screen options, go to Advanced Settings → DNS Settings.
    Select Manual.
    Change DNS addresses to the addresses of one of the servers below.
    Default servers
    AdGuard DNS will block ads and trackers.
    94.140.14.14
    94.140.15.15
    Non-filtering servers
    AdGuard DNS will not block ads, trackers, or any other DNS requests.
    94.140.14.140
    94.140.14.141
    Family protection servers
    AdGuard DNS will block ads, trackers, adult content, and enable Safe Search and Safe Mode, where possible.
    94.140.14.15
    94.140.15.16
    If your game console supports IPv6 addresses, add them as well.
    Default servers
    AdGuard DNS will block ads and trackers.
    2a10:50c0::ad1:ff
    2a10:50c0::ad2:ff
    Non-filtering servers
    AdGuard DNS will not block ads, trackers, or any other DNS requests.
    2a10:50c0::1:ff
    2a10:50c0::2:ff
    Family protection servers
    AdGuard DNS will block ads, trackers, adult content, and enable Safe Search and Safe Mode, where possible.
    2a10:50c0::bad1:ff
    2a10:50c0::bad2:ff
    Press B to confirm changes and exit the menu.
    
      
  • I appreciate the well thought out and articulated response.

    The thing is it's not like I'm blindly using Brave; I've tried to dig into these things with Brave which users have brought up, the biggest complaints usually being "forced" cryptostuff (I had mine on first, and now off...), affiliate links and Brendan Eich being an anti lgbt asshole, etc. Then I went down the same hole with Mozilla; their asshole execs laying off people and then giving themselves bonuses, making deals with Google, etc.

    Richard Stallmans an asshole too, should I stop using GNU? The world is a fucked up place and people are the most fucked up of all and pitting my morals against pragmatism sometimes only gets me so and so far.

    I'd love to get behind some sort of new open-source alternative; I'm hoping we get a viable new thing ASAP, waiting for someone to pull a Linus and create something that truly enables me to consume the web in a manner that I can be personally satisfied with.

  • I believe most of us here block as many ads as possible by any means possible. I so rarely see ads that every once in while when I do (on other peoples devices) I'm shocked and disgusted.

    https://github.com/pi-hole/pi-hole

    https://ublockorigin.com/

    https://brave.com/

    Is enough for me. If I watch YouTube on mobile it's in Brave browser as that block the ads on iOS.

    If I watch YouTube on my TV it's in https://smarttubeapp.github.io/ which also blocks ads.

    You don't have to live like that and I feel sorry for all the people that do.

    All that being said I know what you mean, even the content itself is now saturated with ads, i.e. a word about our sponsor for five minutes at the start of any video...