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

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Post by devaler »

Art9681 wrote: post #255
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.

At this point I would pay those people to stop making videos and start writing again. Sitting through a 15 minute video to explain something that can be read in 2 minutes is a waste of everyone's time.

I could not agree more. Finding succinct written information on the internet feels more difficult every day.

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Post by ThrowawayR2 »

izacus wrote: post #238
tcfhgj wrote: post #195

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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?

The infrastructure for growing and preparing tobacco products also "costs rather steep amount of money" but isn't justification for supporting them. The incessant vomiting of advertising by Google into the faces of the public and the distortion of incentives for content creation has reached a point where the overused word "toxic" has really become warranted.

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Post by npteljes »

iaminsane wrote: post #237

what the fuck am i reading, so much efforts to get rid of ads. there is much easier way to do that - just buy russian vpn for 3$/month. no ads at all

One of the things I never do is paying someone else to circumvent paying to the original vendor. I either buy it legally, in the correct region, or pirate it for free.

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Post by koolba »

chronogram wrote: post #182
tinus_hn wrote: post #179

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A problem with paying is that you have to be logged on so you can’t avoid being tracked and having every video you ever watch linked to you for all eternity.

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.

Maybe if there was a single toggle, available at sign up, that said, “Never track anything”.

Because what happens over time is that some new feature or service comes along that you have to also opt out of.

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Post by elif »

guerrilla wrote: post #204
jjallen wrote: post #198

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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…

No, they're not going to leave money on the table. Eventually you'll be seeing ads too. This is just a hook period. I don't understand how we as a culture haven't learned this already. This is at least the fourth or fifth generation of this with media. How things actually work should be common sense by now.

I've been using premium for almost a decade now, since before it was rebranded from YouTube red. I'll let you know when it's safe to remove your tinfoil hat.

Oh and I'll be downloading my videos for offline viewing and listening to ad free unrestricted music as well.

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Post by DrBazza »

jjallen wrote: post #198
sneak wrote: post #149

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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…

You're giving them money because they're serving you ads in the first place.

I appreciate advertising money pays the salaries of people in such companies, but there are other less intrusive ways. Since I've grown up with the evolution of internet advertising, my brain is wired to just ignore it. I can't saying I've knowingly be influence by any form of internet advertising, ever.

A better solution for all concerned would just be to watermark a corner of a video with 'sponsored by company X' than the hours of human effort wasted in squeezing 30 seconds of adverts into everything, and the effort of people to block and get around that.

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Post by dento »

elif wrote: post #265

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> I bet some of y'all blocking YT ads are paying for Spotify. That's just bad planning [..]

Because it's trivial to block youtube ads. There are no decent free Spotify alternatives or ways to get it for free, that I know of.

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