Or just pay for YouTube premium.
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Block YouTube ads on AppleTV by decrypting and stripping ads from Profobuf
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#222Easier 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.
> 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.
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#223Surprised to learn that google doesn't make use of certificate pinning in these apps.
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You should be okay as long as you solve the challenge(s).
I also run a forward proxy and found adding a user-agent header was all that was necessary.
would you mind providing more details about this? Is it any user agent header, or do you need to do some thing like curl-impersonate?
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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 c…
The hardware doesn't need to go to waste.
At that point, cut all its connections from the Internet and use it as a dumb panel. Many people will say you should have never connected it in the first place anyway.
You can alway use a streamer box (custom Linux one, Apple TV, Fire Stick, etc) to give it "smarts".
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No that's what you get when you're the product by being a free user. Paid service relationship works just fine for me - Google isn't ideal but YouTube is one of my main content sources + YouTube music for my family for slightly more than the price of Spotify family subscription - yeah it's an easy choice. Spotify suggestions and playlists weren't a seller feature for me for years. Maybe I'm missing out on a few podca…
No, Google will keep fucking you over and destroying the Internet, whether you pay or not. Not to mention the fact that what they pay out to creators is absolutely pathetic. Go find their Patreon, their Ko-fi, hell their paypal, anything but giving Google 13 bucks. Adblocking Google is morally right.
Stop using Google if you want to promote alternatives.
Otherwise you're just rationalising freeloader behaviour.
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#227I 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 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.
> They pay the creators per impression even if you block the ads.
this is false. if they can’t show the ad they won’t pay the content creator.
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#228Earlier quoted context omitted.
No, Google will keep fucking you over and destroying the Internet, whether you pay or not. Not to mention the fact that what they pay out to creators is absolutely pathetic. Go find their Patreon, their Ko-fi, hell their paypal, anything but giving Google 13 bucks. Adblocking Google is morally right.
Stop using Google if you want to promote alternatives. Otherwise you're just rationalising freeloader behaviour.
Oh no, don't get me wrong, I'm not _rationalising_ freeloader behaviour.
I'm saying Google _deserves_ to have freeloaders milking them for every bit they can. So does Meta, Microsoft, Apple, Netflix, Amazon...
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*now a monthly $19. Still worth it for me as well, given how much I use it for entertainment and education.
I believe you can get it for $9.99 or something like that, if you don't need YouTube Music. The product is called YouTube Premium Lite.
Only exists in a few countries
https://www.theverge.com/2021/8/2/22605455/youtube-premium-l...