Incidentally, this is probably the best getting started guide for pfSense. When I set mine up last year, all tutorials were lacking. It was usually just installing pfSense, or some random settings that anyone would probably go through anyway. Took me awhile to collate the relevant information and set up my pfSense. I did eventually removed it and installed OPNSense, which has similar issues.
Block YouTube ads on AppleTV by decrypting and stripping ads from Profobuf
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#42The real tragedy: > In fact, the YouTube app is zippier because fewer connections are made to ad URLs in the first place. I swear on LG TV that webOS runs at a smooth 60 FPS when it's not connected to Wi-Fi and slows down as soon as it phones home for whatever telemetry and ads LG intend to serve me...
For LG TVs, if you set the region to "Other," it completely disables all the ads, recommended content, and telemetry [1], presumably because they can't keep track of all the changing laws for every nation on earth.
In my experience, there was a noticable performance improvement as well. Bootup times alone are probably 2x-3x faster.
[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/LGOLED/comments/1571djx/guide_how_t...
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#43Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yeah, that's some weird editorializing on behalf of the author. The "flaw" is mentioned only in the headline, the text just explains how the format works. It's not a flaw, just working as designed. There's also this bit: > Google makes it computationally expensive to decode, alter, and re-encode without the C++ source proto files Yeah, it's computationally expensive if you use unoptimized Python code to do it. If you…
Exactly. It's not exactly computationally expensive if you can do it at 2GB/s! https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26931581
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.
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#44The only alternatives to a service like youtube showing people ads are for its users to pay for it, for it to be funded through donations, for it to be run by the government and paid for through taxation or for it not to exist. I prefer the first or second approaches and Youtube is unusual among social media sites in actually giving me the first option. So I happily pay for premium and while I'd rather that were the…
The issue with paying for youtube premium is that you are still left with tons of ads. Until YouTube themselves doesn't tackle this issue as it should I refuse to pay to see sligtly less ads.
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#45I've been MITM'ing my traffic to, among other things, strip ads and rewrite pages with things like custom CSS, ever since I discovered The Proxomitron over 2 decades ago. It does tend to get me profiled as a "bot" by CloudFlare and such, but there are not-so-trivial ways around that too. It also shows why things like remote attestation are hazardous for user freedom.
> among other things
what else do you MITM for?
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#46The only alternatives to a service like youtube showing people ads are for its users to pay for it, for it to be funded through donations, for it to be run by the government and paid for through taxation or for it not to exist. I prefer the first or second approaches and Youtube is unusual among social media sites in actually giving me the first option. So I happily pay for premium and while I'd rather that were the…
Does anyone recall when cable TV first came out - "Pay for cable, see no ads!!!"
That didn't last long...
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#47The only alternatives to a service like youtube showing people ads are for its users to pay for it, for it to be funded through donations, for it to be run by the government and paid for through taxation or for it not to exist. I prefer the first or second approaches and Youtube is unusual among social media sites in actually giving me the first option. So I happily pay for premium and while I'd rather that were the…
> So I happily pay for premium and while I'd rather that were the only option (I think ad supported content is an inherently socially corrosive model)
Still doesn't protect you from in-video sponsorships (skullshare, OstVPN, etc.), product placements, etc. Some creators especially do these because it protects them from platform demonetization risk.
Same shit with paying for cabletv & movie theatre tickets. If anything, people that pay are their most valuable targets for ads.
Even a newspaper that I sub to runs ads and a zillion trackers against me. Ugh.
I get where you're coming from, but the platform could more to protect paying members from this. E.g. creators with over $x revenue must tag promos so the platform ships them for paying users
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#48I've been MITM'ing my traffic to, among other things, strip ads and rewrite pages with things like custom CSS, ever since I discovered The Proxomitron over 2 decades ago. It does tend to get me profiled as a "bot" by CloudFlare and such, but there are not-so-trivial ways around that too. It also shows why things like remote attestation are hazardous for user freedom.
> The Proxomitron
Googling this, development ended in 2004? An informed summary of the current state of play would be interesting, since a lot of different "continuations" of it seem to be around. Also, is it Windows-only? (I've been casually looking for a simple proxy that would enable injection of local links into remote content.)
Re: Block YouTube ads on AppleTV by decrypting and stripping ads from Profobuf
#49The only alternatives to a service like youtube showing people ads are for its users to pay for it, for it to be funded through donations, for it to be run by the government and paid for through taxation or for it not to exist. I prefer the first or second approaches and Youtube is unusual among social media sites in actually giving me the first option. So I happily pay for premium and while I'd rather that were the…
You mean like PBS?
But now they have ads.
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#50The only alternatives to a service like youtube showing people ads are for its users to pay for it, for it to be funded through donations, for it to be run by the government and paid for through taxation or for it not to exist. I prefer the first or second approaches and Youtube is unusual among social media sites in actually giving me the first option. So I happily pay for premium and while I'd rather that were the…
There are so many reasons to block ads. Aesthetics alone. Protecting your valuable time. Consenting to watching an ad is not the same as consenting to your entire life being tracked and monitored. But the most important issue is that as long as malware can spread through ads ( https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malvertising ), everyone should be blocking all ads.
Everyone should block ads and everyone who can pay for the use of the platform should.