Yeah, I was super gutted when I found out. Apparently it did use to work in the past when they used to serve the ads from different servers, but not any more, unfortunately. It's not completely pointless to install, though. It provides some great software out the box to monitor internet traffic on your network, and I'm pretty sure that in some cases it can speed up your internet by acting as a self-hosted DNS server.

The reason UBlock works, is because it has direct access to the HTML, CSS and JavaScript sent to you. It can alter the web page directly. UBlock scans all the web pages you load, and automatically removes anything it recognizes as an ad. There's a lot more to it than just that, and it's a really clever tool, but essentially what it does is directly alter the code of the web page. Unfortunately, this isn't really possible to do from another device on your network. I did look into somehow setting up a device which scans all incoming traffic like Ublock does, and then removes adverts similarly, but this isn't really possible since HTTPS traffic is encrypted. Any attempt at removing the encryption would likely result in a heap of issues to using various services, and you'll likely get constant warnings on your browser about a page being insecure e.t.c.

Second Fedora workstation. Spent almost an entire year distro hopping to find a distro that worked out the box with my laptops touch screen. Fedora has been the one - super polished too!

Not sure if you meant pihole or not, but if you did, I thought I'd just mention that a pihole doesn't remove ads on YouTube due to the fact that the ads and the videos are served from the same server. You block the ads, you block the videos. Made me quite sad after I set my one up.

Unless you didn't mean pihole, in which case do enlighten me as to what a pinhole is :))

Obviously my opinion, but infinity for lemmy has worked really great for me so far on Android!

I've used freedns.afraid.org.

You can run up to 5 domains on there free of charge. On their about-us page, they state that all the money generated from premium users goes back into the company. Their domains are all public, and are "donated" (not sure if that's the word) by many generous people. Their site says they're currently getting around 7 billion dns requests a month.

The website was started by a hobbiest developer who wanted "to create a safe environment where other programmers could share domain names with one another at no cost".

I'm not sure that it really counts as FOSS, but it provides a way for anyone to use a domain free of charge without having to own any server infrastructure themselves.

https://freedns.afraid.org/about-us/

Edit: also just realized this post is 3 years old, sorry for being a bit late to the party! I hope this helps someone else :)