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

Post by quickthrower2 » Sun, Aug 27, 2023, 9:05 PM UTC

paulryanrogers wrote: post #489

smoldesu wrote: post #394

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I'm prepared. I own a 10tb hard drive that is half-filled with YouTube videos I've backed up. That's 13,000-odd videos in 360p, all raring to go once YouTube bites the dust. Defending YouTube because we're afraid it will "go away" is the same Stockholm Syndrome that paralyzed people on Twitter for so long. I welcome a change that forces people onto more P2P-oriented services, the status-quo is obnoxious and unsustain…

Great, you've a solution for the past. How will creators be incentivized to make and distribute future videos, that you can then download somehow?

Post by motiejus » Sun, Aug 27, 2023, 9:08 PM UTC

kentonv wrote: post #480

Cool hack overall, but some of the statements about protobuf strike me as odd. > Exploit a Protobuf Flaw to Easily Remove All Ads by Changing One Byte He's intentionally corrupting the tag on one field of the protobuf. The "flaw" is apparently that Protobuf ignores tag numbers it doesn't recognize. But that's not a flaw, it's a core design feature of Protobuf, designed to allow extensibility. > Notice how the Protobu…

Post by aidos » Sun, Aug 27, 2023, 9:24 PM UTC

ecshafer wrote: post #420

aidos wrote: post #326

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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…

I don’t think content on the internet has value really. I assume everyone is doing it for fun and expects no money for it.

Post by userbinator » Sun, Aug 27, 2023, 9:42 PM UTC

sgammon wrote: post #588

michaelt wrote: post #126

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Blocking? Cloudflare provides corporate TLS MITM regimes.

"Corporate MITM" is built into the very idea of PKI. Running your own custom PKI is a completely valid way to operate a network. This is a feature because it allows anyone to establish their own trust tree, completely outside of the public certificate trust network. "Regimes" sounds pejorative but in truth, companies have a duty and in many cases a legal obligation to protect their networks. Prima facie, I don't see…

Post by BLKNSLVR » Sun, Aug 27, 2023, 9:58 PM UTC

Salgat wrote: post #486

skinner927 wrote: post #452

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I think this is an unfair critique of the PiHole and I believe you’re throwing the baby out with the bath water. The PiHole blocks DNS and that’s all it’s designed to do, and it does it well. There’s a grandiose amount of telemetry, marketing, and general unsavory traffic flying through your network that didn’t originate from a browser. The PiHole is not exactly a turnkey solution and does take some adjusting to your…

The problem is that unless you're willing to do surgery on a regular basis as you come across blocked sites, PiHole is going to cause more problems than it solves when you have your entire family using it. Even google stops working correctly because results for products on the front page start leading to blocked links. I like PiHole, but I had to stop using it because it was so aggravating for my wife.