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Any sufficiently-dominant corporation is indistinguishable from a government.
That is insane. No corporation has the ability to incarcerate you or kill you. No corporation can round up your family. What, precisely, is the “threat” that Google presents that does not rely on a government to be the muscle. Are they going to cancel your Gmail account? Cut you off from YouTube? Surely if they actually are as powerful and dangerous as you think they are you wouldn’t use their stuff at all. But then…
Block YouTube ads on AppleTV by decrypting and stripping ads from Profobuf
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#462> We’re going to use WireGuard – we have the Intel AES-NI crypto instruction set WireGuard doesn’t actually use AES, as far as I know. In general, it seems like the author somewhat overestimates the CPU requirements for TLS encryption (or equivalently underestimates modern single-board computers): > The CPU requirements to decrypt and re-encrypt HTTPS traffic greatly exceed those available to Raspberry Pis. I'd be re…
I think you're underestimating the CPU requirements. If a weak Android phone is only able to decode 50Mb/s of TLS traffic, that's not a big problem in practice. It's a slow phone, usually connected to slow networks. On the other hand, if you have a gigabit internet connection at home and it is being bottlenecked to 50Mb/s by that weak device sitting between all of your computers and the internet, then that is a big problem.
The CPU requirements for TLS are extremely dependent on the desired bandwidth. At even higher bandwidth, offloading onto accelerators becomes important to be able to do it at all. The cost of handshakes is also nontrivial, and can limit the number of connections per second. For a single device, rarely a big deal. For an entire network of devices, it can be a bigger problem.
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Do you have numbers to back your claim? Afaik From ad revenue channels get 55%. They also get money from premium subscribers depending on how much time they spent on channel. I wouldn't call it peanuts.
That’s true when they pay out. It’s supposedly hard to get to get them to actually pay. They say they pay out 55% of ad revenue per video and 55% of subscription revenue. Assuming 10% of video creators have successfully set up monetization (I made up that number), then they are only paying out 5.5% of ad revenue, since (as far as I know) the unclaimed ad revenue is not pooled and the distributed proportionately to ot…
Do you have any source of this scheme?
Support page clearly explains about revenue sharing, I don't see anything about pooling:
https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/72902?hl=en#zippy=...
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I second the recommendation for SponsorBlock! You've saved people from 10,945 segments ( 2d 17h 9.6 minutes of their lives ) You've skipped 4,006 segments ( 1d 9h 11.8 minutes )
It doesn’t help on TV/mobile though, right? I do appreciate that a lot of creators have been putting the “progress bar” during the sponsored segment that make them easier to skip
I think it works on Firefox for Android.
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> If you don't want ads on youtube, just pay the $10 premium fee. YT premium doesn't actually block the ads that creators put in their videos, SponsorBlock+AdBlock does. Give me the same functionality for 10$ in YT Premium and I will pay.
So how would you monetize YouTube with its huge infrastructure & payroll? And if everyone used something to block in-video sponsored ads, how would you monetize your hard work as a creator?
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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?
Read the privacy policy, they explicitly state they store it. Obviously, because in many cases they need to know who watched that. For instance for their licenses they need to be allowed to show you copyrighted content.
You can ‘pause history’ which means ‘If you turn off your YouTube watch history and have no significant prior watch history, YouTube features that rely on your watch history to give video recommendations, like recommendations on the YouTube homepage, are removed.’ it doesn’t mean they don’t store it.
Google stores everything and deletes nothing. If you don’t want Google to keep track of information, you have to make sure they don’t have it and never get it.
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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.
> I’ll just block ads, alphabet is doing fine anyway. But as the OP says…the problem is that this is not feasible on mobile or TVs.
I self host one of those proxy services that plays the videos skipping the ads on my phone. I access it in my lan and in my vpn.
On my tv… i purposedly picked a tv without any form of smart feature, and have a small nuc to use the aforementioned proxy.
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#468I know it’s not as fun, but you could also pay for YouTube Premium to remove the ads.
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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.
I think there’s an opportunity cost not considered explicitly here, which is heavy users of YouTube (such as myself) find $13/month cheaper than wastes time watching ads.
If I added up the total ad time I’d have to see on a free account, the math would heavily favor paying to not see them vs my (or really most software engineers at the level of YouTube I consume)’s hourly rate.
It’s made decisions much easier for me if I take my hourly post-tax rate and compare it to services I’m using. If math works out, it’s generally worth it.
I’d love to fight the good fight against ads and stuff, but between working 9-5 and a side business, relationships, hobbies, I just don’t have the time.
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#470I know it’s not as fun, but you could also pay for YouTube Premium to remove the ads.
Pay a company for the services it provides!? Blasphemy.