Block YouTube Ads on AppleTV by Decrypting and Stripping Ads from Profobuf

Re:Block YouTube Ads on AppleTV by Decrypting and Stripping ... by TN1ck on Tuesday March 18, 2025 @07:50AM (#43398307)

Maybe she is in a holdback experiment. To understand how a feature affects the metrics (such as running ads), they often have some people in a holdback. I worked there and we did have such experiments for our features.

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Re:Block YouTube Ads on AppleTV by Decrypting and Stripping ... by HeatrayEnjoyer on Tuesday March 18, 2025 @12:10PM (#43401100)

Isn't that pretty unethical without an IRB and informed consent?

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Re:Block YouTube Ads on AppleTV by Decrypting and Stripping ... by MBCook on Tuesday March 18, 2025 @12:21PM (#43401225)

I mean, it’s Google.

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Re:Block YouTube Ads on AppleTV by Decrypting and Stripping ... by ta1243 on Tuesday March 18, 2025 @12:22PM (#43401233)

The is the advertising industry, unethical is their middle name

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Re:Block YouTube Ads on AppleTV by Decrypting and Stripping ... by recursive on Tuesday March 18, 2025 @12:53PM (#43401665)

How does ethics even come into this? They didn't require consent to show ads in the first place. Why require consent to not show ads?

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Re:Block YouTube Ads on AppleTV by Decrypting and Stripping ... by immibis on Tuesday March 18, 2025 @04:42PM (#43404827)

That's academic ethics. Academia holds itself to a high standard - voluntarily. Used car salesmen do not.

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Re:Block YouTube Ads on AppleTV by Decrypting and Stripping ... by RockRobotRock on Wednesday March 19, 2025 @02:38AM (#43408834)

this comment is hilarious no matter how you look at it

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