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Re:Block YouTube Ads on AppleTV by Decrypting and Stripping ... by dmos62 on Tuesday March 18, 2025 @09:17AM (#43399097)
> I don’t think there’s a justification to arguing you own YouTube or the content.

This actually gets to the core of my sentiment. I am influenced by these systems, but I can't directly influence them back. I don't know if this is somehow wrong in principle, but I definitely want more.

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Re:Block YouTube Ads on AppleTV by Decrypting and Stripping ... by HumblyTossed on Tuesday March 18, 2025 @09:29AM (#43399222)
> but I can't directly influence them back.

Opting out of viewing is directly influencing.

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Re:Block YouTube Ads on AppleTV by Decrypting and Stripping ... by duxup on Tuesday March 18, 2025 @09:21AM (#43399145)
As an individual viewer of course the creator of the content is the one with influence.

There's potentially millions of viewers, there's no magic influence that you'd ever notice.

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Re:Block YouTube Ads on AppleTV by Decrypting and Stripping ... by dmos62 on Tuesday March 18, 2025 @09:58AM (#43399469)
By "system", I was referring to the middleman infrastructure (Youtube, in this case).
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