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Sure they can.. but they can’t get around your outgoing firewall rule that reroutes alle traffic for certain ports to the proxy.
If it's only for certain ports, they can just use non-standard ports.
Regular http gets redirected to proxy, non-standard traffic needs to be explicitly allowed out.
Remember, app authors, pin your cert roots! :)
if you want to DRM your app, yeah. In that case, also don't forget to check for microG or root (super scary stuff, a user having admin on their own device, imagine!) and ensure that the device isn't muted during ads as well as disabling app backups (they might be able to get at their own data!!1) and turning off screenshots (no benefit, but it can be claimed to be a security benefit just like denying root and turning…
Those that know what they are doing (i.e. tinkering with the app to find out what makes it work or to modify it), and those that have no idea what any of this means and that get instructed by scammers on the internet (e.g. phone support scams) to do so.
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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.
even if you uninstall, remove from history in the app, and remove from Google account history, future API calls reflect that you've installed the app before.
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.
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I trust (with regards to privacy, censorship and bias) governments even less than Google to be honest.
Any sufficiently-dominant corporation is indistinguishable from a government.
Sometimes this is a publicly tradable for profit endeavor, sometimes it is private or perhaps non-profit(all profits have to be distributed back into the corporation), or even an actual public corporation(often called a town or a city,
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Secondarily, because I already run an ad blocker for the rest of the web, and I'm not ever going to turn it off on principle. I view ads as a malicious tax on my attention and a threat to my computer's security. They simply don't get to run on my machines. Monetize your content some other way, I'm happy to pay for it once you've earned my respect. (You do that by making good content.)
(This is also why I stopped watching regular TV; too many damn ads.)
Notably, I don't really "browse" YouTube. I have a small fixed set of subscriptions whose videos I watch. I use my content blocker to remove the "recommendations" sidebar and the end-of-video grid, because I find them distracting. So, yes, I run my "ad"-blocker even on my YT Premium devices because I gain other UX benefits from doing so.
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Do you have numbers to back your claim? Afaik From ad revenue channels get 55%. They also get money from premium subscribers depending on how much time they spent on channel. I wouldn't call it peanuts.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oV3s_sESnmE Louis Rossmann: > If you gave a creator even $1 as a donation that is more than they will make from you watching years of ads on their content.
I just don't feel like paying 100 different youtube channels $1-$2 each every year.
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.
The obvious reality here is that RandyLahey1989 from Halifax probably isn’t going to start a Substack about snowmobile repair, nor would anyone read it if he did, but his video on replacing the carb in a 2011 Switchback has hundreds of comments thanking him for his help. Wouldn’t you agree the internet’s a better place for giving Randy the chance to share his domain knowledge (and get paid for it)?
I seriously think the “everything should be an article” crowd is a bit disconnected with how the average person prefers to create. The future of consumption is video for a growing majority of internet users, one would be a fool to pretend otherwise.
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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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