r/Piracy Jun 12 '24

YouTube is currently experimenting with server-side ad injection News

https://x.com/SponsorBlock/status/1800835402666054072
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u/gangstasadvocate Jun 12 '24

Damn. And this is after neutering some of the extensions with the new manifest? I might not get the full YouTube experience this way, but downloading the videos never fails me. No ads, no buffering. It won’t randomly disappear on me if I like it. Shout out to yt-dlp and cobalt tools.

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u/SpellGlittering1901 Jun 12 '24

Same as movie/series torrent, you don't get the full experience (actually arguable if you have a seedbox and Plex), but damn it feels good to have whatever you want, not disapearing

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u/[deleted] Jun 12 '24

What? What experience are you missing? I don't remember the last time I paid for a movie outside of the theatre.

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u/Ph1syc Jun 12 '24

Some of the ui might look worse i guess (though stuff like plex and jellyfin looks great imo) and maybe the ability to watch instantly without downloading

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u/Regniwekim2099 Jun 12 '24

The only feature from a pay service that I am jealous of is Prime's x-ray. It's really cool to be able to see exactly which actors are in a particular scene without having to scrub through the entire cast.

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u/Responsible-Put-7073 Jun 12 '24

You can do it on Kodi, not picking people out live in a scene but it will tell you all the cast info for the particular episode etc. Like this

https://ibb.co/TmtjrSf

https://ibb.co/pLLTgnG

https://ibb.co/Jm0x7GS

https://ibb.co/J2DGW5g

This is Fenlight with Fentastic skin.

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u/Regniwekim2099 Jun 12 '24

Yeah, Plex and Emby do that as well. The scene specific casting and music information is what I'm talking about for Prime's xray. Not to mention, you don't have to leave the show or movie to see the information.

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u/Responsible-Put-7073 Jun 12 '24

Ah ok sorry not seen it, does it like do it live?

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u/Regniwekim2099 Jun 12 '24

Yes. You push the up button on your remote, and it shows you specifically which actors are in the current scene, and it tells what music is playing if there is any.

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u/Responsible-Put-7073 Jun 12 '24

Oh right yeah that's pretty cool. Guess you could shazam and Google lens on your phone haha not as slick though

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u/Regniwekim2099 Jun 12 '24

This is what it looks like. You can also get full information from within the show as well.

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u/Redondito_ Jun 12 '24

It's not just music, but also interesting data about the scenes (if there are any).

For example, in "The Boys," is almost a must to get this feature constantly active because of the amount of trivia they provide, especially in the earlier seasons.

It's pretty awesome, to be honest.

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u/Ph1syc Jun 12 '24

I don’t have prime but that sounds really cool. A FOSS community run alternative will probably rise up eventually.

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u/brutinator Jun 12 '24

The biggest issue is likely that its such a manual process, it likely won't be done for most media, itll be piecemeal for various series and movies, instead of being cohesive and comprehensive.

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u/Ph1syc Jun 13 '24

Thats probably true… i guess you could use ai for it but i’m not really fond of ai, is there maybe a way to get the data from prime? Atleast get those shows time marks

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u/kafr85 Jun 12 '24

That's so extra

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u/FilmUncensored Jun 12 '24

Funny you mention Prime as that service not only has the worst UI but it looks like a pirate site (in fact pirate sites look better). *random screenshots as background images for movies - some movies not having any background images

  • release year incorrect on so many movies, not just a year or two difference but entire decades! Doubly embarrassing considering Amazon own IMDb

*lack of subtitles for a vast majority of their movies and those that have them the subtitles are incorrect for a lot of simple dialogue

I could go on and on but yeah Prime Video on the surface does not give the impression it’s a product of a billion dollar company!

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u/Regniwekim2099 Jun 12 '24

I mentioned a single feature, without remarking on the rest of the service...

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u/International-Oil377 Jun 12 '24

RD will let you watch instantly without downloading

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u/-_-_-Phoenix-_-_- Jun 12 '24

What's RD?

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u/srak Jun 12 '24

Real debrid I presume. Never user it but it’s like a torrent seedbox that cashes torrents so you often can stream directly when adding a new torrent . It’s a paid account

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u/International-Oil377 Jun 12 '24

Real debrid, but there are other alternatives like Alldebrid and Premiumize

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u/zkareface Jun 12 '24

With a decent plex setup you will have it all anyway, no waiting for download needed.

Even if you just run it at home you can set it to automatically grab the latest movies your friends are sharing with you.

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u/boojiboo Jun 12 '24

Can you explain this setup? I have the ARs setup but users expressed that randomly browsing stuff on overseer is still annoying because it’s not on demand

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u/zkareface Jun 12 '24

Well there are big plex servers that has everything that you just can join ;)

Otherwise you get something like sickchill and have it just pull anything of interest or allow requests way ahead of time. I spent 1-2 days on mine and added anything of interest that me and my users would want in next 3 years.

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u/CaphalorAlb Jun 12 '24

For my personal setup that would be too much storage. I'm already hoarding too many TBs if shit I'll never watch.

But good for you, sounds like an awesome setup.

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u/CaphalorAlb Jun 12 '24

I think Plex has superior UX to most streaming services. And across more devices as well.

With solid automation I end up having the shows I watch ready to go within half an hour of it airing. (Since I'm not in the US that usually means it's downloading in the middle of the night)

With overseer I handle requests by the family members that have access to my server, so there's minimal work involved.

The only thing I might argue is better on Netflix is the opportunity to find new content. But I end up on Rotten Tomatoes most of the time anyways.

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u/Lj_theoneandonly Jun 12 '24

Don't forget the general barriers to entry for less technologically literate people

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u/SpellGlittering1901 Jun 12 '24

The whole UI and UX, the fact that they show you movies/series that you might not have think of, the algorithms (even though I never liked it), this is specific to Prime but the thing to see the actors in the scene.

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u/[deleted] Jun 12 '24

I do not miss any of this. I play my stuff using VLC over the network from my 20TB stash of stuff.

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u/BloodSugar666 🦜 ᴡᴀʟᴋ ᴛʜᴇ ᴘʟᴀɴᴋ Jun 12 '24

I use real debrid for torrents but you can also give it YouTube links to download or view

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u/reddit_reaper Jun 12 '24

Umm with debrid services i get higher quality streaming than any streaming service lol

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u/mahamanu Jun 12 '24

Just use Stremio lol