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Block YouTube ads on AppleTV by decrypting and stripping ads from Profobuf

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Post by for_an_anon »

rpgbr wrote: post #212
jjallen wrote: post #198

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I'm giving them money to view fewer ads. Isn't this an inherently "anti-ad" consumer standpoint? I am telling YT/Google that I as a consumer am willing to pay money to not see ads. Am I not telling them with my wallet to develop other ad-free solutions that I will pay them and the content creators money for? > They pay the creators per impression even if you block the ads. Blocking ads harms Google, not the content p…

Google keeps tracking your behavior for advertising purposes. This defeats completely any reason to give them money.

No it absolutely does not. It's entirely a personal preference to be okay with that. No need to be this savage.

This is their job, after all.

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Post by fifteen1506 »

flangola7 wrote: post #234
tinus_hn wrote: post #185

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And if you believe Google is not storing that information anyway I’ve got a beautiful bridge for sale. If you don’t use an account you can create a fresh container every once in a while and start the game anew and you can choose to not associate it all with your identity.

What evidence is there that Google is specifically storing it? Wouldn't that violate GDPR?

Yes. But they aren't abiding by COPPA either so... (last week news, search for YouTube + COPPA).

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Post by 1vuio0pswjnm7 »

brainbag wrote: post #224
1vuio0pswjnm7 wrote: post #147

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I also run a forward proxy and found adding a user-agent header was all that was necessary.

would you mind providing more details about this? Is it any user agent header, or do you need to do some thing like curl-impersonate?

No, actually it just needed to be well-formed. UA headers follow a certain format. Some folks like to try to "blend in" and use known headers seen in the wild but personally I like to make up new UA headers that reveal nothing, not even fake details. On the whole, I very rarely send a UA header. The number of sites that demand one is very small for me. I had just assumed Cloudflare was doing TLS fingerprinting or something more involved than just checking for presence of a UA header. But it worked. The StackExchange family of sites is one example where a UA header is needed. They will block otherwise. Not using Cloudflare to do the blocking though.

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Post by Art9681 »

jjallen wrote: post #122

I just subscribe to YouTube premium to support my favorite application out there. I learn so much from the people who spend hours and hours making videos every month that I am more than happy to pay a measly $13 or whatever it is every month to YouTube.

At this point I would pay those people to stop making videos and start writing again. Sitting through a 15 minute video to explain something that can be read in 2 minutes is a waste of everyone's time.

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Post by haraldooo »

pdimitar wrote: post #247
userbinator wrote: post #193

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Yes, and this also answers the other comment about what else I MITM for: blocking devices that I can't inspect the traffic of is another reason, since the proxy is the only way out of the network.

Pardon the lay question, but is it really the only way out of the network? Can't programs initiate connections while skipping the system-wide configured proxy?

Sure they can.. but they can’t get around your outgoing firewall rule that reroutes alle traffic for certain ports to the proxy.

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Post by pdimitar »

haraldooo wrote: post #256
pdimitar wrote: post #247

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Pardon the lay question, but is it really the only way out of the network? Can't programs initiate connections while skipping the system-wide configured proxy?

Sure they can.. but they can’t get around your outgoing firewall rule that reroutes alle traffic for certain ports to the proxy.

Hm, I have to see if Mikrotik has rule syntax for this. I can already force every app who thinks they will use their own DNS server to use mine but not sure how I could do the same with a proxy. Maybe just force ports 80 and 443? But what's stopping these apps to communicate on non-standard ports?

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Post by j-bos »

neurostimulant wrote: post #206
jjallen wrote: post #191

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> YouTube Premium is NOT the way. So have 100 different Patreon subscriptions each month? The minimum pledge is $1. What if I watch 200 different YT creators? What about the short videos? Should I create a new Patreon subscription for each individual creator I watch? What if my interests frequently change (they do). Should I spend hours per month managing individual Patreon subscriptions? The original post is about b…

> I guess this could be true that YT "shaft[s] creators in every way possible". If this were true, I'm somehow guessing that not basically everyone would show their videos there, don't you think? The fact that content creators are still using Youtube doesn't mean Youtube is not shafting content creators. Youtube has killed most of their competitors so it's not like content creators have other options right now, but I…

Nebula is still going strong AND the creators there still gain from posting to youtube https://youtu.be/Alqt6RCEWdM

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Post by npteljes »

znpy wrote: post #216
dewey wrote: post #131

Easier solution: You can get YouTube Premium for $2 a month if you just happen to be in Argentinia while you sign up, even if you are using a US credit card to pay.

Nah. I’m old enough that i don’t care about playing the “catch the mouse” game with all the various ways to borderline-legally pay less (and maybe get your account flagged and suspended - good luck appealing to that). I’ll just block ads, alphabet is doing fine anyway.

In the same line of thinking, I just pay what they are asking in my region. It's very good value for money anyways.
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