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Re:Block YouTube Ads on AppleTV by Decrypting and Stripping ... by ttctciyf on Sunday August 27, 2023 @02:58AM (#37280095)
> 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.)

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Re:Block YouTube Ads on AppleTV by Decrypting and Stripping ... by d2323 on Sunday August 27, 2023 @06:08AM (#37281151)
Privacy might be what you're after. Open source and cross platform.
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Re:Block YouTube Ads on AppleTV by Decrypting and Stripping ... by mrAssHat on Sunday August 27, 2023 @06:20AM (#37281227)
That's impossible to google.
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Re:Block YouTube Ads on AppleTV by Decrypting and Stripping ... by scoopertrooper on Sunday August 27, 2023 @06:23AM (#37281248)
Didn't help that they spelled the name incorrectly, but I found it :D

https://github.com/barre/privaxy

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Re:Block YouTube Ads on AppleTV by Decrypting and Stripping ... by userbinator on Sunday August 27, 2023 @03:50PM (#37286006)
In this case "incorrectly" is what makes it possible to find it, search-engine-autocorrect-stupidity aside. The name is obviously a combination of privacy and proxy. There's another one called Privoxy which works on similar principles.
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Re:Block YouTube Ads on AppleTV by Decrypting and Stripping ... by d2323 on Sunday August 27, 2023 @08:17PM (#37288082)
Apologies, I meant Privoxy. Privaxy looks pretty decent too, but I've never used it.
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Re:Block YouTube Ads on AppleTV by Decrypting and Stripping ... by Phemist on Sunday August 27, 2023 @07:03AM (#37281435)
Auto-correct issue?
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Re:Block YouTube Ads on AppleTV by Decrypting and Stripping ... by dfxm12 on Sunday August 27, 2023 @09:33AM (#37282558)
We call that Auto co-wrecked or maybe a spill check.
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Re:Block YouTube Ads on AppleTV by Decrypting and Stripping ... by d2323 on Sunday August 27, 2023 @08:14PM (#37288052)
Sorry all, I meant Privoxy. Didn't even realise Privaxy was a thing.
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Re:Block YouTube Ads on AppleTV by Decrypting and Stripping ... by ttctciyf on Sunday August 27, 2023 @07:08AM (#37281454)
(With thanks to your grandchild) https://github.com/barre/privaxy seems definitely worth a look - thanks!
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Re:Block YouTube Ads on AppleTV by Decrypting and Stripping ... by tbbfjotllf on Sunday August 27, 2023 @09:54AM (#37282740)
How does this compare to adguard home???

https://github.com/AdguardTeam/AdguardHome

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Re:Block YouTube Ads on AppleTV by Decrypting and Stripping ... by ttctciyf on Sunday August 27, 2023 @11:22AM (#37283525)
Adguard seems to offer blocking only, whereas Privaxy "is able ... to inject scripts as well as styles into HTML documents", which was the feature my comment expressed interest in.

The readme goes on to say: "Privaxy is also way more capable than DNS-based blockers as it is able to operate directly on URLs and to inject resources into web pages."

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Re:Block YouTube Ads on AppleTV by Decrypting and Stripping ... by k4rli on Sunday August 27, 2023 @12:28PM (#37284188)
One acts as a proxy while the other one is a DNS server. Different tools
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Re:Block YouTube Ads on AppleTV by Decrypting and Stripping ... by xattt on Sunday August 27, 2023 @10:52AM (#37283274)
> Windows-only

Can’t Wine help with this?

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