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

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Post by ohgodplsno »

ddalex wrote: post #194
ohgodplsno wrote: post #159

Earlier 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.

Wouldn't be not using Google at all the morally right choice ?

It would be, if Google didn't have a chokehold on most of the internet. Sure, Nebula exists, I can watch three creators there, woohoo. Let me go on Dailymotion too for those sweet 2005 videos.

Google did everything in their power to force themselves into every aspect of our lives and leaving no alternatives, or destroying them, or buying them. Now they get to deal with the consequences

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Post by rightbyte »

moonchrome wrote: post #226
ohgodplsno wrote: post #159

Earlier 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.

How is utilizing free services ever not freeloading?

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Post by ohgodplsno »

ddalex wrote: post #196
Shekelphile wrote: post #180

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Adblocking Google is morally right. All ads should be blocked. I do not consume ads, and am not interested in paying a ransom to hide them.

If you don't consume ads, please do not use any ad-supported service, that's the easiest thing to do.

No.

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Post by flangola7 »

tinus_hn wrote: post #185
chronogram wrote: post #182

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You have privacy controls in your Google account. I have web & app activity off, location history off, YouTube search off and YouTube watch history auto deleting after a few months. https://myaccount.google.com/data-and-privacy If you're talking about them building a secret extra profile about you with those things turned off, then they wouldn't need you to login for that.

And if you believe Google is not storing that information anyway I’ve got a beautiful bridge for sale. If you don’t use an account you can create a fresh container every once in a while and start the game anew and you can choose to not associate it all with your identity.

What evidence is there that Google is specifically storing it? Wouldn't that violate GDPR?

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Post by izacus »

ThePowerOfFuet wrote: post #135
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.

Nebula sounds like a better fit.

Nebulas Android app is insultingly poor quality and pretty much unusable on tablets/foldables (it locks in portrait - who the heck still does that on a VIDEO app?!)

I've had college students build better apps for homework. It's insulting considering the rather high price of a service.

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Post by izacus »

tinus_hn wrote: post #185
chronogram wrote: post #182

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You have privacy controls in your Google account. I have web & app activity off, location history off, YouTube search off and YouTube watch history auto deleting after a few months. https://myaccount.google.com/data-and-privacy If you're talking about them building a secret extra profile about you with those things turned off, then they wouldn't need you to login for that.

And if you believe Google is not storing that information anyway I’ve got a beautiful bridge for sale. If you don’t use an account you can create a fresh container every once in a while and start the game anew and you can choose to not associate it all with your identity.

If you're right, you can easily earn big amount of money by filing a GDPR complaint or suing Google for lying about privacy.

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Post by izacus »

tcfhgj wrote: post #195
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 recommend donating money yourself (E.G. Patreon). It's not only more effective, but also doesn't support Google (main player in the ad industry)

That's the same Google which is providing the whole transcoding, delivery and bandwidth infrastructure to deliver you those videos?

Something that costs rather steep amount of money?

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Post by syntaxing »

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…

Aha it’s awesome to see you here on HN too! Thanks for bringing up that filter list pinging. Been meaning to change the fork to stop using the hardcoded address of 0.0.0.0 on the front end so we can truly isolate the docker container but life gets in the way. Have you tried this on an Apple TV?

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Post by izacus »

neurostimulant wrote: post #192
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 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.

Creators also get a whole hosting, transcoding and CDN solution covered by that price.

If you ever tried to self host you'll know just how expensive that is.

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