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

Re:Block YouTube Ads on AppleTV by Decrypting and Stripping ... by greenpizza13 on Tuesday March 18, 2025 @09:57AM (#43399465)

Or simply pay for YouTube. They provide a service, it’s not our job as technologists to enable stealing it.

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Re:Block YouTube Ads on AppleTV by Decrypting and Stripping ... by DavideNL on Tuesday March 18, 2025 @10:04AM (#43399528)

... if there'd be a healthy amount of alternatives/competitors to chose from, that would probably be true.

However, as we all know, it's basically a monopoly.

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Re:Block YouTube Ads on AppleTV by Decrypting and Stripping ... by carlosjobim on Tuesday March 18, 2025 @03:32PM (#43403909)

Absolutely! When you discount for cable tv, satellite tv, airborne tv, Netflix, Amazon, HBO, Disney and others.

Because we are hackers and everything we don't like (or don't want to pay for) is automatically a "monopoly".

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Re:Block YouTube Ads on AppleTV by Decrypting and Stripping ... by arnath on Tuesday March 18, 2025 @09:59AM (#43399486)

I mean, they provide the service by stealing data from their users. I would argue that this is just as ethically fine as Youtube's entire business model.

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