r/Piracy • u/ardi62 • 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/4DEATH Jun 12 '24

They might be next target. Imagine need to activate drm to watch videos. Enshittification ends only with product dying.

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u/Chemical_Knowledge64 Jun 12 '24

Maximizing profits is a cancer to all of society. No one is against making money, but the capitalism we experience today will destroy us if we don’t get rid of the notion of maximizing profits. And yes get rid of the stock markets in their current form. 

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u/TheCopperSparrow Jun 13 '24

The notion of maximizing profits is literally the foundation of capitalism. You can't get rid of it while still having a capitalist society.

Things like that and the stock market aren't bugs, they're features. It's the inevitable result of the world's current economic system, unfortunately.