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Is the $10/month supporting creators?
Block YouTube ads on AppleTV by decrypting and stripping ads from Profobuf
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#342How long before Google splices in ads into the codec stream ?
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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.
I'd like to address the concept of "ads are creepy" which you will hear often. It's a false equivalence.
Most prominently you'll see the flag under "privacy settings" something like "don't show me relevant ads"; this is obviously a manipulative placebo. Ads are not the problem. That creepy feeling is the awareness that "they know everything about you", or literally how your vivisected intellect is presented in a marketplace for all bidders to insert their ideas.
They will continue surveillance and attention assault whether you let them show you a hint or not. They will continue to sell your identity, behavioral patterns, associates, interests, finances, grades, location, moods, biometrics, and anything else they can monetize. They will continue to attempt to alter your mental state and force you into doing things you wouldn't ordinarily do.
However you set that "relevant ads" button, you can be sure the trillion dollar corporation will not lose a penny when you check that box; they'll show you a different, equally profitable, ad, and your data firehose is still for sale.
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#344Earlier quoted context omitted.
> I don't get why people block ads on YouTube, robbing individual creators. It's not like hulu or Amazon where you are just robbing megacorp and predatorial studios. 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…
Creator gets 55% of ad revenue, and 70% of direct contributions like superchats. Premium revenue is shared as well. Ad-blocked views count for analytics but not in ad impressions.
Source? I've seen a variety of claims about the revshare split on youtube, but I've never seen any official source of those numbers.
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#345I 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.
But that's not all about it. You probably don't know amount of courses available on YouTube. Chemistry, medicine, engineering, mathematics and what not.
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#346I 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.
Which, if people weren’t aware, is also a consequence of ads. It’s so the creator can get a mid-video ad. Even if you pay for yt premium, you’re still getting a garbage experience because creators fluff out videos to hit the higher minute mark.
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#347Earlier quoted context omitted.
Presumably this involves installing new CA certs on your devices, no?
Yes, and this also answers the other comment about what else I MITM for: blocking devices that I can't inspect the traffic of is another reason, since the proxy is the only way out of the network.
layperson here: won't, say a banking app complain about the now new cert it deals with instead of the bank-cert?
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#348Earlier quoted context omitted.
Creator gets 55% of ad revenue, and 70% of direct contributions like superchats. Premium revenue is shared as well. Ad-blocked views count for analytics but not in ad impressions.
Source? I've seen a variety of claims about the revshare split on youtube, but I've never seen any official source of those numbers.
It's right there on Google support
https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/72902?hl=en#zippy=...
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#349I 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'll pay Google when they start weeding out the utter garbage that is uploaded targeting kids. Things like frozen characters getting tired up and thrown in water, or their clay stomachs getting cut open. YouTube happily suggests these abusive videos when you are watching kids shows, and Google does stuff all about them
Are you taking about https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elsagate , which was fixed in 2017?
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#350> We’re going to use WireGuard – we have the Intel AES-NI crypto instruction set
WireGuard doesn’t actually use AES, as far as I know.
In general, it seems like the author somewhat overestimates the CPU requirements for TLS encryption (or equivalently underestimates modern single-board computers):
> The CPU requirements to decrypt and re-encrypt HTTPS traffic greatly exceed those available to Raspberry Pis.
I'd be really surprised if MITMing TLS on an RPi 4 was actually infeasible, even when using RSA cryptography purely in software.
There are Android phones still in use with weaker CPUs than that of the RPi 4, and these use TLS too.