Cert pinning is a solution. Just because it is not an ideal solution and it is anti-consumer does not make it "not a solution". You can't modify an app binary o

Cert pinning is a solution. Just because it is not an ideal solution and it is anti-consumer does not make it "not a solution". You can't modify an app binary on an Apple TV without first jailbreaking. So cert pinning in this case would go from "anyone with a pihole or equivalent can block YT ads on their Apple TV" to "people who jailbreak their Apple TV and install a cert pinning breaker and have a pihole type setup can block ads". If you are google and your goal is to get people to watch ads, cert pinning is clearly a win if you are at all worried about things like the OP. Clearly they are not very worried, presumably because the bar set by the OP is already too technical for most people (even if it was packaged in a more consumable way).