[someotherperson]

Would love to see some ultralight version of this that I can just run directly on my router.

[Ayesh]

Unfortunately I don't think it's possible. The router can only intercept as far as DNS goes, and DNS Blocklists are already incapable of blocking YouTube ads.

[moogly]

You can run Docker on Mikrotik's RouterOS[1]. I doubt performance is anywhere close to great though, but it'd be interesting to try.

[1]: https://help.mikrotik.com/docs/display/ROS/Container

[someotherperson]

Routers run operating systems like everything else does though. What would make my OpenWRT router running this any different from another device on the network?

[_Algernon_]

It only has access to the encrypted payload, while the client has access to the decrypted payload.

[figmert]

The service doesn't deal with encrypted payloads. It just integrates with YouTube's lounge api. As long as a machine is able to run this and is connected to the internet, that should be enough.

[oefnak]

Encryption