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

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Post by jjallen »

ffhhttt wrote: post #146
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.

You could probably support them more directly over Patreon/etc. so they’d get to keep a much bigger proportion of what you pay

I do that too when I really want to support someone. YouTube premium is a way to support each producers videos, not only the few that I might patronize on Patreon.

There are dozens and dozens of different creators of videos that I watch each month, so if I only used Patreon most wouldn't get anything from me.

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Post by isaacremuant »

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.

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Post by jjallen »

rhaway84773 wrote: post #153
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.

I’m not against YT premium, but wouldn’t a better choice be to give the people you’re learning from money instead?

I do when I regularly watch a particular creator's videos over and over. However, this isn't the case for most of the videos I watch. Lots of one-off views.

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Post by [deleted] »

stingraycharles wrote: post #93
beirut_bootleg wrote: post #89

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> 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.

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Post by yard2010 »

stingraycharles wrote: post #93
beirut_bootleg wrote: post #89

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> 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.

I don't know maybe auto skip on them for premium users? I have an extension that does just that, surely google can do it too

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Post by kaliqt »

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.

This reads like an ad.

I wouldn't support them that way. They shaft creators in every way possible.

You should be subscribing to Patreons and their video subscriptions. YouTube Premium is NOT the way.

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Post by msla »

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.

Support them through Patreon because it's morally right.

Keep your hand in the adblocking world because it's morally right.

People can do two things.

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Post by layer8 »

master-lincoln wrote: post #127
trollied wrote: post #116

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I pay for YouTube premium and have never seen an ad. Not sure what's happening with you.

Half of the content on YouTube could be considered to be an ad by itself. Also sponsors are being advertised regularly within videos which I would consider to be ads too

It strongly depends on the kind of content you watch. I watch a lot of YouTube, but hardly any of it has sponsored content.

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Post by sneak »

vintermann wrote: post #101
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…

By the same logic, it's irresponsible to watch ads and not buy the products. That's after all what keeps the wheels turning. I remember I had this discussion after a school political debate in the 90s, with (adult) actual politicians. Textbooks at the time were not publicly funded, and naturally the textbook companies jacked up prices for their captive audience forced to buy their books. This one party had the "brill…

None. The textbooks would then be subsidized by McDonalds' advertising budget, reducing their profit margin.

It's the same as blocking YouTube ads; Google still pays the creator as if you had watched the ads, so your video playback is being subsidized by Google's ad business profits.

When you choose not to block ads, you aren't "supporting creators", you are supporting Google shareholders.

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Post by Shekelphile »

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.

I don't see a point in giving google any money when the price of premium seems to go up every time I open the page for it (it's literally gone up 50% in the last 2 months, with the cheaper tier also no longer being offered) on top of actively being worse than using normal adblockers since you won't get any equivalent to sponsorblock by paying for premium. It's literally worthless, at least until google begins clamping down on ad blocking.
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