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what the fuck am i reading, so much efforts to get rid of ads. there is much easier way to do that - just buy russian vpn for 3$/month. no ads at all
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Network level ad-blocking like Privoxy and pi-hole have so many downsides like they can't handle inline adverts. My pi4 pi-hole is unplugged right now because it just didn't work well. After hours wasted trying to make it work with all the services, I've thrown in the towel. The time involved is just not worth it for a home network. What works are browser based ad-blockers and app patchers like ReVanced. As my saving…
This is what I fail to understand. It’s a cool hack but ad-free YouTube is a few dollars a month. Spend that creative time elsewhere!
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Enjoy the tiny hole in your wallet? Weird flex. I enjoy the same benefits using uBlock origin and yt-dl. And it didn't take any tinfoil :)
Tell me, do you casually click 15-20 videos on your phone while You're taxing before takeoff to be entertained for the whole flight? Do you use a media player that lets you turn off the screen but continue to listen to your just released yt podcast while you work out? Do you watch live feeds on your phone without ads? Or do you run a yt-dl scripts from the CL 3-4 times per year to farm w comments?
Sorry, was that supposed to be a gotcha?
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If I were to keep my insurance policy number in my car in the form of 9 bricks with a number on each one, I honestly wouldn't notice. The car would seem to drive exactly the same. There are even plenty of dead spaces to hide them where they wouldn't even noticeably consume cargo space. Yet for some reason I will not place 9 unneccessary bricks in my car, nor tolerate them if I discovered them already there. Is the "s…
Or, maybe you found the batteries, and assume that they must be the bricks they write the insurance number on.
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Partners are everyone with monetization (revenue sharing) [1]. It's available in many many countries [2]. The countries you are listing are the early access to newer features like superchats, merch store, etc [3] It's all there, no need for rumors and hearsay. [1] https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/2475463 [2] https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/7101720 [3] https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/13429…
I'm not basing anything I say here on rumors or hearsay, I'm simply reading the content on Google's own websites regarding this, as I personally have no experience about it. From the first link: > I'm not a YouTube partner, so why am I seeing ads on my videos? > YouTube may also place ads on videos in channels not in the YouTube Partner Program. Doesn't this mean that YouTube is earning money from ads placed on video…
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What evidence is there that Google is specifically storing it? Wouldn't that violate GDPR?
Read the privacy policy, they explicitly state they store it. Obviously, because in many cases they need to know who watched that. For instance for their licenses they need to be allowed to show you copyrighted content. You can ‘pause history’ which means ‘If you turn off your YouTube watch history and have no significant prior watch history, YouTube features that rely on your watch history to give video recommendati…
This would be a clear GDPR violation. This isn't the 2000s or 2010s any more.
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Why not AdGuard DNS? It's free.
How heartwarming that they run such a wonderful service purely out of the goodness of their hearts, with no income from it, and no expectation of financial compensation.
The 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...