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“Awful”: Roku tests autoplaying ads loading before the home screen
(arstechnica.com)
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this post was submitted on 18 Mar 2025
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Enshittification
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What is enshittification?
The phenomenon of online platforms gradually degrading the quality of their services, often by promoting advertisements and sponsored content, in order to increase profits. (Cory Doctorow, 2022, extracted from Wikitionary) source
The lifecycle of Big Internet
We discuss how predatory big tech platforms live and die by luring people in and then decaying for profit.
Embrace, extend and extinguish
We also discuss how naturally open technologies like the Fediverse can be susceptible to corporate takeovers, rugpulls and subsequent enshittification.
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Pihole/adguard filter rule:
This should be a default for PiHole:
https://github.com/StevenBlack/hosts
Do you know if there’s a way for me to add something to my Pihole that would interfere with YouTube ads on the app on Xbox? I’ve been using wireless screen cast to use a laptop lately because the ad frequency has gotten so intense on the Xbox and iOS apps. Guessing it’s somehow being included online to the video streaming and I can’t use a browser/unlockorigin in the console so maybe there is nothing to be done, haha.
Youtube is always problematic as the ads are served from the same domain as the videos themselves. That means that DNS blocking doesn't work. I have the same issue with a chromecast+youtube. I have no good solution there.
Yeah I kinda figured, thanks for replying though. I have an acceptable workaround, but man, once you get used to no ads, it feels like a blizzard of insurance and other crap ads once you use one of the apps not in a computer. It’s actually what’s got me slowly rebuilding an old surface pro with Linux surface—because I enjoy YouTube on tablets, but basically can’t stand the iOS apps anymore haha.
I have a wireguard VPN setup into my house so that when I'm away from home, I can still get DNS based ad-blocking.
Ads are violence
Same man, same.
I install smarttubenext app on android TV - it's a YouTube without ads.
And revanced on a phone. Or just YouTube on Firefox with ublock on a phone