I'm in recovery and these alcohol ads are literally painful. Like one 30 second ad will make me spiral and I'll need my antianxiety meds and my ESA. How do I stop the fucking algorithm?
For context I watch everything on my Xbox one because my laptop is broke
I watch stuff from an Xbox one. My computer is broken.
In this case you may need to use a secure DNS that block ads. I have not tested these, but here is a list: https://www.reddit.com/r/dns/comments/711dzl/a_free_ads_blocker_dns/
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I've heard about pi-hole, which is a system where you can set up a Raspberry Pi to block ads across your entire network. It's a little involved to get one set up, but could be worth it.
https://pi-hole.net/
Sounds like a neat project to keep me busy and help my sanity. Thank you!
Definitely go for it!
There might be a way to block the domains of most common triggering advertisers (or Google ad services in general, but that might break stuff) at your router. You can connect to your router via an address that looks a little like 192.168.0.1, check online for your router's model if that doesn't work. Then there should be a place to configure the blocked domains.
Since I'm not sure if blocking google ad services will work, you may have to identify and manually block the triggering ads one by one. Hopefully someone else has an idea for how to fix that problem without too much of a hassle.