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Amazon Fire TV Stick - Block Advertising
Hello together fellow LET members,
I've bought the newest generation of the Amazon Fire TV Stick and got it today. It is the one with the new Alexa remote.
I've set it up and all. Installed quite a few good entertainment apps like YT, Netflix and etc. Some of them have a few annoying ads playing before the actual content. And Youtube has ads generally anyway...
I need some of you Fire TV Stick owners who have some rootless ways to block advertising. Cost doesn't play a role as long as it is reasonable. I have some hardware around in case I may have to build like my own local setup.
Give me ideas and solutions please. Share your knowledge. Thank you 
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Send it back.
Fuck Bezos.
Watch the fucking ads. They’re subsidising your free entertainment, you thoughtless shit-weasel.
Stick it up your ahole both @WSS and @Nekki. Cunts...
Run pi-hole on a VPS or at home. Tell your stick to use that DNS either static or via DHCP. Problem solved.
You must be new here...
You send it to me, I'll stick it up my arse and then take a photo of it up there.
For an extra $10, I'll video myself shitting it back out, too.
Hey @raindog308
That is one thing I thought about. I have a spare RPi 1 B+ with a WiFi stick and the other stuff. And thankfully my WiFi router has custom DHCP option to pass on custom DNS servers.
I however would like to see if there is a way to do it directly on the device first before setting up such a ad block DNS server.
My apologies in advance if I'm insulting your intelligence, but you don't have to run pi-hole on a RPi. I run mine on a VPS.
Now if you could root the Fire stick and run pi-hole directly on it...you would be legend.
He specifically requested no root though, so even MORE legend lol
You can drop SOME ads (not YT) by pi-hole (and similar obviously, this is nothing special) but if you wait like 8 weeks this is useless also because, as you can guess, advertisers trust Amazon and allow them to delivery from their own infra - bam, pinned SSL on same connection for content and ads. Welcome to Chromecast and Apple TV.
On TV series on prime all I get is a 30 second ad played before the start, currently it seems to be the one for 'the tick' every time! However it does have a skip option so no biggie really.
The Tick looks as though it'll be amazing.
I hope they get Patrick Warburton to play it again.
Better, it's Peter Serafinowicz. He's wonderfully deranged.
He was great in "Look Around You", but I'm afraid he's typecast as a fat fuck who lost weight.
SPOON!!
Look Around You was amazing, especially series two. The music of the future episode was just about perfect.
I know, right!? The fact they had Simon Quinlank with a beard just made it all the better!
I'm well aware of this but I'd rather host it at home exclusively for a few devices only and for this a Raspberry Pi is probably a cheap solution.
Thanks for your input.
I've been thinking about stuff like DNS66/AdGuard and etc. After all Fire TV is based on Android and I already installed a few APKs on it including Kodi without issues.
Need to play around more and see if any of these ad blockers that work by creating a local VPN with list & DNS filtering will work on the Fire TV.
Google, Reddit and etc suggest a few hints that it may work but there is not so much useful information. Mostly discussions like this one to find out possible working solutions.
With all the time you’ve invested and are going to invest, it’d be quicker to watch the damned ads.
@Cartman Raspberry Pi with PiHole in your network.
The answer lays somewhere on my sofa
VPN with adblock dns?
Thank you @raindog308 @graphic Ho-ost and @Ympker.
I will just try out the existing rootless Android advertising blockers on trial and if that doesn't work I'll go for the selfhosted Pi-hole solution.
Moderators can close the thread if they see this. Looks like my previous report didn't get through/was possibly ignored.
Just check if you can really block the ads with the Pi-Hole first. I was running one on a VPS for me and a few redditors up until 2 months ago, and youtube ads were never fully blocked. Not sure why. Still did a great job with every other ad.
If the ads are injected straight into the video stream -- i.e. there isn't a separate connection out to the ad service -- then I see how that could be an issue and pihole wouldn't really help you there.
Why pihole if your router can handle blacklist
It cannot. No option for that in it. Neither in the custom firmware I have on it.
Really? You dont have dnsmasq on the custom firmware?
Just looked around at the page of it and its wiki but couldn't find any word about dnsmasq.
It does have SSH so I could login and check what it uses for DNS. It's a cheap model though. ASUS RT-AC51U
https://lede-project.org/toh/hwdata/asus/asus_rt-ac51u
Just install LEDE. Problem solved.
FUCK YOU, CLOUDFLARE
Use the hosts file from here:
https://github.com/StevenBlack/hosts