Not sure if this is the right place to ask this question. I frequently watch pirated ESPN+ sports streams, and all of them show this “Commercial break in progress” screen when there is a commercial instead of the ads themselves. Recently all of the pirated streams have gone way down hill in quality and reliability. I was thinking about setting up my own pirated stream to help out. But as far as I can tell, there is no ad free tier for ESPN+. Does anyone know how the other streams filter out the ads so I can do the same? I don’t want to be the only stream that still has ads.

I have tried adding the ad URLs to my pihole’s blocklist, but it causes the video to start buffering when the ads come on, and it won’t recover. When I refresh the page, I get an error message saying that the video can’t be played at this time.

Is there’s some way I could redirect those URLs to some other “commercial break in progress” video instead?