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.
Block YouTube ads on AppleTV by decrypting and stripping ads from Profobuf
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But you're happy to use the monopolist's service.
yes, absolutely, but only inasmuch as it only decreases their producer surplus so it doesn't actually cost them anything. If the monopolist allowed competition, then I'd evaluate and choose, but I don't have that choice till then.
You could choose to not use YouTube out of principle.
Besides these days it's barely a monopoly with TikTok.
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It would not surprise me if most TVs don't check. I remember LG or Samsung using unencrypted FTP to upload viewing data a few years back, so unverified TLS would be an improvement >_<
This should be a scandal if true.
Definitely should be checking certs, though I always worry about the flip side of these device security decisions. if there is no way to update the trusted root certs, your TV becomes terminally ill with software ewaste disease when the manufacturer updates stop coming.
I really don’t like hardware becoming waste because we don’t have a better iot cert pool update story
I trust YouTube to know how to bake their own cert and trustworthy tls libraries into their apps but I’m not sure if that’s common in other apps
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They train you to do this when they volume boost the ads to blow your eardrums out.
Over here volume boosting is illegal, so instead they DSP ad audio to maximise envelope across all frequency bands. Since ad sections are your typical break from a program to get to the fridge or toilet or whatever, the DSP transform makes sure you still hear the ads and pick up dialog even when far away from the TV. Downmixing audio so that you can both hear dialogue and not lose eardrums to music and 'splosions see…
If you don’t hugely care about the quality it’s easier. Movies also want to use the dynamic range for effect but they sometimes rely on people have better home audio systems than they actually do.
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#135I 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.
Nebula sounds like a better fit.
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#136I 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.
I would not mind paying for "ad free Youtube" if it was like 5 - 10 bucks. I don't need or want Youtube Music. There was a YouTube Premium Lite at some point for some countries.
Plus paying for youtube premium does not remove the sponsor ads inside videos.
Also I feel like the algorithm has gotten worse and worse? I personally don't like to support that.
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> I dislike the attitude of those who reject ads but also refuse to pay And I dislike YouTube's hostile ad escalation in recent years. One ad - fine, two ads - hmmm, three ads - what the hell. Unskippable ads. Inappropriate ads. Loud-ass eardrum ripping ads. Ads even on Premium.
I have premium but don’t see any ads, except the sponsorships of the creators themselves. Which is a bit annoying but not a lot YouTube can do about.
>not a lot YouTube can do about. //
They've tried? It seems like it would be pretty easy to detect ad sequences in larger channels.
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I find this a false proposition, there are plenty of other ways to to support a video streaming platform. There is nothing that suggest a platform like youtube has to exist in it's current form either. If a monetizing strategy does not work it is not the users holding it wrong. People consumed videos online before youtube and will be consuming after youtube just fine. It is not like Google is the creative mind behind…
You claim that there are plenty of other ways to support a video streaming platform yet fail to mention even one of them. Things cost money. Every monetizing strategy involves users paying for it or the company making money from the users indirectly. OP mentions both of these. So tell me, what's a monetizing strategy other than these that works? People consumed videos online at a very limited scale before YouTube, an…
Nitpicking alternatives is not the main point. There is nothing that suggest a platform like youtube has to exists in its current form.
Consider a freemium model without the threat of adxtortion, obviously this would require youtube to offer a significant value add and/or premium content besides trying to be a monopoly and gatekeeping eyes. Make it purely subscription based (e.g. Netflix before ads). Ask creators to pay for the blue checkmark. Make it a loss leader. Plenty of adult streaming sites manages to do just fine without youtube style invasive ads. I'm sure much smarter people can name countless other ways as well, it also does not need to be a 1-1 alternative either.
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It would not surprise me if most TVs don't check. I remember LG or Samsung using unencrypted FTP to upload viewing data a few years back, so unverified TLS would be an improvement >_<
This should be a scandal if true.
Here's a good one about TCL:
https://sick.codes/extraordinary-vulnerabilities-discovered-...
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#140I 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.
If the ads were silent banners changing the aspect ratio of the videos, I wouldn't mind them.
30 second un-skippable advert to see a 7 year old 45 second clip? I press "back" and watch neither.
Thinking of supporting creators: I looked at Nebula a while back as an alternative; I think there was some UX issue back then, but they've likely improved it and I should look again.