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

Post by boesboes » Sun, Aug 27, 2023, 7:56 AM UTC

glitchcrab wrote: post #68

ajkblue wrote: post #28

This reminds me of a now-dockerized Privaxy, which is a UBlock-origin blocklist compatible MITM proxy. It’s crazy to see how many ads and tracking scripts are on smart products, especially my TV where so far in my testing it’s over 40% unnecessary traffic. Its been pretty fun to try and strip out ads on my smart-tv apps. https://github.com/deetungsten/webui-privaxy is the dockerized fork of https://github.com/Barre/p…

How do you get your TV to trust the self signed cert?

Post by scrollaway » Sun, Aug 27, 2023, 7:57 AM UTC

Scoundreller wrote: post #47

omnicognate wrote: post #29

The only alternatives to a service like youtube showing people ads are for its users to pay for it, for it to be funded through donations, for it to be run by the government and paid for through taxation or for it not to exist. I prefer the first or second approaches and Youtube is unusual among social media sites in actually giving me the first option. So I happily pay for premium and while I'd rather that were the…

> So I happily pay for premium and while I'd rather that were the only option (I think ad supported content is an inherently socially corrosive model) Still doesn't protect you from in-video sponsorships (skullshare, OstVPN, etc.), product placements, etc. Some creators especially do these because it protects them from platform demonetization risk. Same shit with paying for cabletv & movie theatre tickets. If anythin…

Post by Vortigaunt » Sun, Aug 27, 2023, 7:58 AM UTC

cannedbeets wrote: post #40

omnicognate wrote: post #29

The only alternatives to a service like youtube showing people ads are for its users to pay for it, for it to be funded through donations, for it to be run by the government and paid for through taxation or for it not to exist. I prefer the first or second approaches and Youtube is unusual among social media sites in actually giving me the first option. So I happily pay for premium and while I'd rather that were the…

There are so many reasons to block ads. Aesthetics alone. Protecting your valuable time. Consenting to watching an ad is not the same as consenting to your entire life being tracked and monitored. But the most important issue is that as long as malware can spread through ads ( https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malvertising ), everyone should be blocking all ads.

Post by thrdbndndn » Sun, Aug 27, 2023, 8:01 AM UTC

redrove wrote: post #34

thrdbndndn wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>_exactly_ like malware But it's googlevideo.com. I know this is Google/YouTube's domain so the rest doesn't matter.

Which is besides the point and a minor nitpick at best. The fact of the matter is these techniques are well established black hat ways of preventing the user from discovering what you're doing on their device.

Post by lacoolj » Sun, Aug 27, 2023, 8:02 AM UTC