[foxylad]

Odd - I have a pi-hole on my home network and never hit the issue with YouTube. The only breakage I've found is the top "results" (actually sponsored ads) on Google search don't work, but I always scroll past those anyway to discourage bad behaviour.

In fact pi-hole works so well that I'm always struck by how awful the internet has become when I venture away from my home network. Doctorow's enshitification in action.

[RulerOf]

The YouTube thing was what turned me on to Pi-Hole's list of commonly-whitelisted domains[1], but even after adding it, the experience of things breaking was just ultimately too frustrating to keep using it.

It's really an issue with feedback, though. When my ad blocker breaks a page, it says that it blocked something. When pi-hole breaks a page, it just appears to be broken.

1: https://discourse.pi-hole.net/t/commonly-whitelisted-domains...

[ap-andersson]

I have had to do the same to fix Youtube progress reporting, but not much more. That is one of few things the PiHole has ever broken for me (that I know of...). I agree that a problem with PiHole is that if something is not working and I disable uBlock as a debugging step, then I have to also browse and login to 2 different PiHole GUIs and temporarily disable it. Without knowing if PiHole actually blocked anything. It is especially inconvenient when on the phone. I have not looked if it already exist, but I would want a nice little app I can open and just click "disable for X time" which would disable the blocking on all my PiHoles at once. Also syncing all settings from a "master" instance would be great. Maybe the default lists should contain some of the whitelis domains or something aswell.

Still, these problems are so small compared to the value I get out of my PiHoles. Blocking ads for years on end while having troubles maybe 3-4 times in total. All the other time it just works.