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

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Post by dawnerd »

rvnx wrote: post #306
Lio wrote: post #274

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Part of the objection to ads is the tracking. 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.

What I find very unfair, is that I am paying for YouTube Premium, whose promise is "No ads", but the "poor content creators" are injecting ads that are directly embedded inside the stream. Like "Linus Tech Tips". I think YouTube should force streamers to tag the timecode of their in-stream ads, and auto-skip them for Premium users. It's like if you play a game and you purchase the In-App upgrade to remove the ads, an…

SponsorBlock effectively does this without the creators help. Even directly subscribing to creators these days isn’t enough, they want you to buy their merch and they almost never consider that a sponsorship. Need to stop acting like these big players are barely making any money.

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Post by thaanpaa »

rvnx wrote: post #306
Lio wrote: post #274

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Part of the objection to ads is the tracking. 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.

What I find very unfair, is that I am paying for YouTube Premium, whose promise is "No ads", but the "poor content creators" are injecting ads that are directly embedded inside the stream. Like "Linus Tech Tips". I think YouTube should force streamers to tag the timecode of their in-stream ads, and auto-skip them for Premium users. It's like if you play a game and you purchase the In-App upgrade to remove the ads, an…

The solution is to stay away from poor content creators such as LTT.

I'd rather want a filter that filters all videos that have '...reacts to...' in the title or certain channels such as LTT that get pushed to my front page, even though I really, really don't want to see them.

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Post by quickthrower2 »

Mechanical9 wrote: post #305
BoppreH wrote: post #283

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Because I already support my favorite creators in other ways. Because I'll still see ads when I use other devices. Because videos have extra ads in the form of sponsor segments. Because ads are a parasite on society. Because their lying and psychological manipulation should be illegal. Because most of this tracking and privacy invasion mania is the ad industry's fault. If there's a new product useful for me that I sh…

This website is also ad-supported.

It gives more airspace to free ads for startups in Show HN than it does to it’s own companies to be fair.

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Post by zb3 »

aidos wrote: post #271
ecshafer wrote: post #269

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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.

If you don’t care about the creators then why watch the content? Sure, the subscription might not make sense to you, but either the content has some value or not. The ads are the value exchange. Don’t get me wrong, I don’t like the ads either.

Because I was tired and work was painful, I wanted some rest but YT injected some garbage content. They've exploited my vulnerable mental state to manipulate me into clicking, but I didn't like the content. Should I support predators?

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Post by aidos »

ecshafer wrote: post #296
aidos wrote: post #271

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If you don’t care about the creators then why watch the content? Sure, the subscription might not make sense to you, but either the content has some value or not. The ads are the value exchange. Don’t get me wrong, I don’t like the ads either.

I am almost always following a link to YouTube, or watching an embedded video. I don’t really care about the content usually. It’s a means to an end

I guess my point is, either the content has some value to you or not. If you’d rather not sit through the ad for the content, that’s fine, go and spend your time doing something that does have value to you.

I use YouTube primarily as a diy reference manual. It’s infrequent enough that I don’t want to pay for a subscription. I will however exchange a small bit of time in order to get the content, because it has value to me at that moment.

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Post by quickthrower2 »

for_an_anon wrote: post #251
rpgbr wrote: post #212

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Google keeps tracking your behavior for advertising purposes. This defeats completely any reason to give them money.

No it absolutely does not. It's entirely a personal preference to be okay with that. No need to be this savage. This is their job, after all.

It definitely ain’t quid pro quo, but that is too nice, they shouldn’t be tracking full stop. I use ublock origin and premium btw

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Post by issafram »

thegeomaster wrote: post #203
rs_rs_rs_rs_rs wrote: post #21

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Not a CF employee but I am pretty sure it's working as intended as they built and use this: https://github.com/cloudflare/mitmengine

Use this to evade it: https://github.com/lwthiker/curl-impersonate Greetings from a country whose (almost) entire IP space is blacklisted by Cloudflare!

Which country?

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Post by zo1 »

dewey wrote: post #131

Easier 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.

You're not just paying $2 or 5$. You're paying by the fact that you have to "login" to remove those ads with that measly $2.
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