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Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ@lemmy.dbzer0.com • 1 year ago

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

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

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Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ@lemmy.dbzer0.com • 1 year ago

Apple TV and iOS YouTube ads are not blocked by Pi-hole, so I researched this and discovered a flaw in Protobuf that allows me to restrict YouTube ads.

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1 year ago
"block YouTube ads using a flaw in the Google Protocol Buffer"... until google fixes it, that is.

Still, super cool finding!

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