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Has anyone got it working with YouTube on Apple TV yet?
by brookhaven_dude 8y ago
Has anyone got it working with YouTube on Apple TV yet?
- rhexs 8y agoWouldn't you need some sort of intercepting MITM HTTPS proxy to be able to inspect the traffic for ad content? Thought Google was using https and legit domains to drive ads instead of just doing lookups to youtube-ads.google.com etc. Presumably you'd need a way to inject a cert into the Apple TVs trust store as well, and I'm unclear if that is possible. Perhaps with a developer license?
- wogg 8y agoThis is network level, and it's taking the name lookups, which are done before picking the connecting endpoints, so SSL doesn't matter. It's not rewriting the stream, it's just saying, someone is trying to get an endpoint at this particular name and I am going to give it a different IP than the "world" would. Nothing of that is happening inside the https link. Eg, you get https://whatever.com/whateverelse.. https://whatever.com/whateverelse... it will see the DNS lookup for whatever.com regardless of procotol.
- stordoff 8y agoI believe rhexs's point is that it's using the same domains for video data and ad data - i.e. you're seeing hxxps://youtube.com/video_data, hxxps://youtube.com/ad_data, hxxps://youtube.com/video_data..., so filtering at the DNS level doesn't work.
- tyfon 8y agoThe only way I was able to remove ads from youtube on my devices with dedicated apps was to purchase youtube premium. I use the service so much I don't really mind paying for it.