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Because YouTube ads like all ads are annoying. For the couple of times a month I end up watching something on YouTube by luck, why would I care about “creators”. I don’t use Spotify.
Don’t get me wrong, I don’t like the ads either.
A few years ago pihole was all the rage. What happened? I'm genuinely asking what are the difference between the two approaches and when is one better than the other.
“ This unboxing and setup has been fun, but I’d like to block all the bad traffic on my network. I’ve been using a workhorse of a DNS-level adblocker called Pi-Hole on a… yes, Pi, but it would be nice if I can reclaim that wee bit of hardware for something else and use a comparable add-on module in pfSense. Let’s explore that now.”
So basically that was only doing DNS level blocking. This article is about traffic decryption and manipulation.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
it's computationally expensive if it's more computation than all the other things you'd like your hardware to do, i think is a better definition.
No, that's not the issue. The author seemed to have parsed the protobuf data by converting it all to a huge hierarchy of thousands (millions?) of Python objects. Of course that is slow and takes a few seconds. That's so many allocations! But if you are just looking for a specific tag, there's no need for that, I'm pretty sure you can parse protobuf in place without allocations, which would be a million times faster.…
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If you subscribe to YouTube premium you’re making yourself even more identifiable.
You end up seeing more creepy ads elsewhere on the web using your viewing history to target you.
Versus an adblocker which will help hide you from Google everywhere.
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Else, I'll block the ads.
I agree it's not fair to anyone involved to break the monetisation strategy.
A few years ago pihole was all the rage. What happened? I'm genuinely asking what are the difference between the two approaches and when is one better than the other.
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How much does YouTube/Google/Alphabet get from each ad view and how much of that goes to the actual uploader of the video? If the ratio is less than ~50%, I wouldn't feel too bad about it.
Secondly, not every could afford the $10 price, but still doesn't want to view ads. These people wouldn't pay the $10 price regardless.
Thirdly, if you follow this procedure and strip the ads from the stream, does that make it so YouTube doesn't count the ad impression?
Why is toggling `has_premium_lite_entitlement` cheating compared to anything else? What would it do?
I am assuming it would completely prevent ads (so no need to figure out how to filter/block them) as the name of this field suggests that it might be used by YouTube to figure out if someone has a premium subscription or not. Toggling this field would not have led the author to the later protobuf rabbit hole as there would have been no need for it. From personal experience, we programmers/hackers sometimes like to ma…
it's a bit like inspecting source on a banking website, altering the balance html, then expecting the displayed value to reflect actual account funds
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Suffering corporate brainwashing via ads is not some moral imperative, and I wish people would stop trying to pretend otherwise, especially on Hacker News, of all places.