But it does appear that way. And they probably didn’t get any “real” confirmation that the video is real.

How does this work? I’ve been considering using a Raspberry Pi for Pihole, but I’ve been discouraged as it wouldn’t work for YouTube anyways. How I understand it is that Pihole is DNS, which just blocks certain domains. Since Youtube ads and videos are indistinguishable from a networking POV, it won’t be able to block them. Am I wrong? Is there something I have misunderstood?

Mickey.

For me it’s laziness.

Imagine the survival rate without precautions. (e.g. look at Italy 2020)