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A comment on Block YouTube Ads on AppleTV by Decrypting and Stripping Ads from Profobuf. Parent comment

Re:Block YouTube Ads on AppleTV by Decrypting and Stripping ... by redrove on Sunday August 27, 2023 @02:38AM (#37280009)
Which is besides the point and a minor nitpick at best.

The fact of the matter is these techniques are well established black hat ways of preventing the user from discovering what you're doing on their device.

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Re:Block YouTube Ads on AppleTV by Decrypting and Stripping ... by thrdbndndn on Sunday August 27, 2023 @04:01AM (#37280451)
Discovering what exactly? To bad they don't use a subdomain called "adplayback" I guess, but the query parameters are obviously only useful for YouTube internal, not the users.

And I won't even call them "obfuscated" -- it's just a batch of switches and plain IP and ID hash.

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