Block Youtube ads

I’m trying to block the annoying youtube ads with pihole but unfortunately it doesn’t work for me. The following is not viewed at all:

(rr[\d]{1}---[\s]{2}-[\s]{8}-[\w]{4})\.googlevideo\.com

Has anyone had similar experiences?

Examples look like this

rr1---sn-8xgn5uxa-quhl.googlevideo.com
rr1---sn-8xgn5uxa-quhl.googlevideo.com
rr3---sn-8xgn5uxa-quhz.googlevideo.com
rr6---sn-8xgn5uxa-quhl.googlevideo.com

>Solution :

Using [\s]{2} in the pattern (which can be written as \s{2} matches 2 whitespace chars, but in the example data there is sn

The single meta characters in this case do not have to be placed between square brackets.

Looking at some documentation on this page \w \s and \d are not supported.

You might use

rr[[:digit:]]---sn-[[:alnum:]]{8}-[[:alnum:]]{4}\.googlevideo\.com

The pattern matches:

• rr[[:digit:]] Match rr and a single digit
• ---sn- Match literally
• [[:alnum:]]{8} Match 8 alphanumerics
• -[[:alnum:]]{4} Match - and 4 alphanumerics
• \.googlevideo\.com Match .googlevideo.com

See a regex demo.