[Privoxy-users] Block iOS YouTube Ads

Ian Silvester iansilvester at fastmail.fm
Thu Dec 8 22:01:03 UTC 2016


In which case the guidance I gave still applies but at the Privoxy
server instead. Obviously you would need to minimise the 'noise' in the
log by ensuring no other device on the LAN was communicating at the
time.

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On Thu, 8 Dec 2016, at 16:46, Haroon wrote:
> I run Privoxy on a server on my network and all of my devices, including 
> Apple devices, point to it. Not jailbroken or running Privoxy on the iOS 
> devices themselves.
> 
> On Thu, 8 Dec 2016, Ian Silvester wrote:
> 
> > Have you installed the Privoxy iOS release? If you have, you'd need to
> > alter the config to display URLs that are allowed through, work out
> > which one(s) relate to the ads and work out a block directive.
> >
> > Then again, if you've already jailbroken your phone, do a more general
> > web search - I would expect someone has come up with a fix that is
> > specific to the YouTube iOS app.
> >
> > Ian
> >
> >
> > My PGP public
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> >
> > On Thu, 8 Dec 2016, at 16:31, Haroon wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> Is there any way to block the YouTube ads that play before videos in the
> >> iOS app?  It doesn't seem to happen when playing videos on my desktop
> >> machines.
> >>
> >> Haroon
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