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by Ayesh 976 days ago
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.
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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

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