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Block YouTube ads on AppleTV by decrypting and stripping ads from Profobuf
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#212Earlier quoted context omitted.
If you continue to give Google money you'll continue to get things like AMP, Manifest V3, Web "Integrity", and whatever else they think up to track you across the web. They're an ad company. They pay the creators per impression even if you block the ads. Blocking ads harms Google, not the content producers.
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.
Re: Block YouTube ads on AppleTV by decrypting and stripping ads from Profobuf
#213Very nice writeup. I was kinda hoping to find a way to MITM devices that don't allow the installation of custom CA's. I have some IoT devices that do not expose a local API and only exposes the data through the cloud, and would like to capture the device to cloud traffic... I guess the only way to do that would be to dump the flash memory, replace the CA and reupload the dump to the device?
> I was kinda hoping to find a way to MITM devices that don't allow the installation of custom CA's The point of TLS is to prevent that... You'd be relying on implementation flaws if it were ever achieved. Frankly I expect the days of being able to install our own trusted certificates are numbered on the few devices that do currently allow it.
While i agree that TLS will probably be used more restrictively over the years, corporate use should hold back a self-signed CA crackdown.
Re: Block YouTube ads on AppleTV by decrypting and stripping ads from Profobuf
#214Cool but I’ll just keep paying for YouTube premium since it provides me incredible value
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#215Earlier quoted context omitted.
I understand the sentiment, but the creators actually only got peanuts (most don't even see any money) out of your $13 while the rest go to Google. You are paying Google for youtube, and Google pay (some) content creators with a tiny fraction of your subscription money.
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.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oV3s_sESnmE
Louis Rossmann:
> If you gave a creator even $1 as a donation that is more than they will make from you watching years of ads on their content.
Re: Block YouTube ads on AppleTV by decrypting and stripping ads from Profobuf
#216Easier 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.
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#217Earlier quoted context omitted.
> The Proxomitron Googling this, development ended in 2004? An informed summary of the current state of play would be interesting, since a lot of different "continuations" of it seem to be around. Also, is it Windows-only? (I've been casually looking for a simple proxy that would enable injection of local links into remote content.)
Privacy might be what you're after. Open source and cross platform.
That's impossible to google.
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#218I 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 the creators directly (most accept donations through side channels). Don't give money to Google.
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#219Earlier quoted context omitted.
Privacy might be what you're after. Open source and cross platform.
That's impossible to google.
Didn't help that they spelled the name incorrectly, but I found it :D
Re: Block YouTube ads on AppleTV by decrypting and stripping ads from Profobuf
#220Or just pay for YouTube premium.