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Re:Block YouTube Ads on AppleTV by Decrypting and Stripping ... by userbinator on Sunday August 27, 2023 @02:32AM (#37279977)
Back when YouTube wasn't owned by Google, replacing /watch?v=... with /get_video?video_id=... in the URL would immediately give you the video file (in FLV format, of course.)
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Re:Block YouTube Ads on AppleTV by Decrypting and Stripping ... by redrove on Sunday August 27, 2023 @02:34AM (#37279988)
There was also a relatively brief time when YT was owned by google but ads were delivered from a separate (sub)domain so DNS adblocking would work wonders.

Those days are gone as the distinction between ads and malware becomes a technicality.

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