Apple TV and iPhone YouTube ads are not blocked by DNS adblockers (e.g. Pi-hole), so I heavily researched this and discovered a flaw in Protobuf that allows me to restrict YouTube ads on Apple TV and iOS by simply changing one byte in the Protobuf responses after decrypting HTTPS network traffic.
Sometimes you just want to check in on your home services over public WiFi, but the firewall is smarter than most, and VNC and VNC-related cloud services are blocked. What you do is register a vanity domain name, have it resolve to your home gateway, then use an encrypted VNC session over port 443 (HTTPS).
Let’s say I’m in a Starbucks or the airport (or both) and I want to connect to my Windows (or OSX or Linux) machine to check on things. Maybe I don’t want to take my primary computer with me on vacation; maybe I’ll just take a Chromebook. Behind a restrictive firewall all we have is port 80 and port 443 (no VNC or RDP allowed), so let’s make a secure web-based remote desktop gateway with a Raspberry Pi, Docker, and Cloudflare.