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Roku has patented a way to show ads over anything you plug into your TV
(arstechnica.com)
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this post was submitted on 06 Apr 2024
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Now, if only they would invent the exact opposite of this, I would buy it
I want zero ads. Ever.
They did! Its called a pihole plus ublock origin plus piracy.
You can't buy it, only the hardware, but the software is all free.
Still doesnt block youtube ads 😩
For ad-free youtube on Android TV: SmartTube
For ad-free youtube on mobile Android devices: ReVanced
For desktop: Firefox + uBlock origin
Also for Android: NewPipe
Also for desktop: FreeTube
Or GrayJay for Android
Or Tubular
Or Firefox for android, the app version also can use extensions
Ad free YouTube on RokuOS? TIZEN?
Ad free YouTube on iOS?
Sadly, Firefox + ublock is becoming unreliable. I routinely can’t play YouTube videos on my desktop computer with that setup (+ a vpn) because google just won’t serve them. I just get perpetual loading screens.
Are you... Are you using the yt APP!?
Roku TV 😞
Oh. Oh no. Do you need a hug? A hammer?
So if you can side load check out smart tube app
Revanced only, bby!
You can't defend against ads with pihole if the ads server has the same address as content server
This is true. Hence the piracy. Only way to go ad free.
But with the risk of malware infection, unfortunately.
When something is free, you're the product.
I'd advise to continue to use non-pirated products, but only from those companies, whose service you're satisfied with.
And if there's none, don't consume product at all. It's not like movies are vital for you.
Vlc is pretty good, and I run a pretty strange distro. If I'm extra scared, I'll use qubes or get a sacrifice machine.
I think the poor having culture is important. Either art is important, or it Fucking isn't. You seem to be arguing its the frivolity, not the substance and fruit of civilization.
Video isnt my favorite medium, I have a lot of criticisms of it, but its still art, still precious. And so everyone deserves to have it.
And authors along with those, who maintain content distributing infrastructure, deserve to be rewarded for their labour.
But I can't pay them. Its not generally an option. Have you seen the terms on their Fucking contracts?
Literally the closest I can get is wandering around Los Angeles giving money to people who look vaguely familiar or give off writerly vibes.
Then don't consume the product. It's entertainment, not vital goods.
By the way, where do their salaries come from, in your opinion?
Okay but then noone should. Theres no way to give money to the people who made this shit. I'm not saying I'm poor, I'm saying there is no vector by which I could.
And I just said why I'm gonna, and why I'm gonna give more away to everyone else. I'm gonna buy extra tools to do that, just to spite your classist 'the poor should have no culture' bullshit.
But there is. Part of the money you pay distributors goes to the creators.
And by the way: distributors not just "speculate on digital goods" or whatever you seem to imply. They distribute. That means they make goods available through the internet in a convenient way.
Servers won't pay for themselves.
Lol no it doesn't. I saw the contracts the AFL-CIA pushed on the workers, and I know being good bought or beloved doesn't get people hired again because the shit heads who do get the money send it on cocaine and child slaves and private jets and the worst possible decisions with the capital and IP dipshits like you give them.
I don't get my films from Netflix. I torrent them; distribution is a community effort!
Don't worry; I give back, keep my seed ratio high, never shut off a torrent until its at least 3:1 etc.
Where do you think creators salaries come from?
Starbucks, maybe olive garden. Same as always. I can't change that.
Wait were you calling amazon video Hulu and Netflix convenient? Are you an ad fetishist? Is the best part of a movie figuring out where and how to watch it? I can't understand another way to believe this.
More convenient for me, than torrents: because I watch content either on TV or on phone.
I have vlc on my phone. Toss an sdcard in yhere, movies for days (more if i rewatch or dont watch while sleeping).
Dunno about TVs but last time I saw someone use one's native software it looked like hell to use.
Samsung and LG are pretty good
Typing with a god damn remote. No thanks.
Or a phone app that's gonna break like two years after purchase and snitches on everything.
You can connect a Bluetooth keyboard to it.
Have you heard about our new ad-blocking TVs?
Thanks to our patented Ad-Away technology, they're guaranteed to keep you free from all ads! Get yours now, Ad-Away subscriptions start at $49 a month!
2 years later, somewhere in their sales and marketing departments:
“Hey, you know what would make us even more money?”
“No, but do tell”
“Advertising”
“Genius - how is it nobody has ever thought of this before?”
Lol 😂
Nice 😆💀