Is that actually possible?
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IIRC Amazon has a patent on triggering speech recognition without telling the user.
Yes it is.
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I was joking, but would not be surprised if there are ways
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I’m gonna jump in and ask: does anyone get ads in between videos that are videos too and last 20+ minutes? It started happening to me a while ago, especially if I’m listening to a podcast before falling asleep.
It’s like Youtube knows I’m probably not gonna skip the ad because I’m asleep and starts playing it.
It happens on my phone, not on PC.
This triggered me pretty hard because I’m constantly seeing two ads at the beginning of a video and one at the end, minimum. I don’t mind those, but sneaking up on me like that it’s not acceptable.
P.S. if anyone got DNS lists to improve the stopping power of my DNS server lmk. Thanks
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I think YT sometimes shows previews of other YT channels if it’s ad algorithm can’t match a paying ad to the consumer/vid they are watching.
I once got a 1.5 hour YT video as a skip panel ad on a 30 min opinion/complaining video.
I think @PhaseLockedLoop has some mega piHole/DNS lists and ad blocking against ads on YouTube.
Perhaps on this guide
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Been eyeing that guide for a while. No lists in it thou.
Thanks for the suggestion!
Do you want my lists?
I’ll update the thread
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Thanks for your continued work on those
Sure, that’d be really appreciated!
I know it was a lot of work to put it together so I didn’t know if it was “fair” to ask or not.
It was more I didn’t know people were interested in all of those
Fair warning it breaks a lot by default
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Not a patent, but I saw a defcon talk I think it was, where they used pulsed lasers to send a command to a google home. “OK google, open the garage door”
This works through windows. So you could break into someone’s house this way.
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I would never give google/apple/ anyone access to open my garage or unlock the door ect (to be fair its not hard to break windows and on the plus side you would have time stamps when they “broke” in)
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I have used uMatrix and NoScript for 5 years now. And before that, I used AdNauseam to click on all the ads and f*** with their stupid monetization system. But for some reason, AdNauseam wouldn’t block everything as well as uBlock did (even though it is a fork, it blocked side ads, but not video ads on youtube). But once I went to deny by default, I never seen an ad ever again. And for about a year, I’ve been using youtube-dl and deleting everything after I watched (I started downloading stuff, because I’ve noticed stuff getting deleted a few hours after I saw them in my sub feed, so I back everything up, watch and then delete, I only have 256 GB of storage in total).
I used the youtube program on Android on occasion and saw ads, but changed to NewPipe this summer. NewPipe doesn’t have all the features I’d want, but gets the job done.
The only domains to make Youtube work on NoScript or uMatrix are:
- youtube.com (obviously)
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googlevideo.com
and if you want images and thumbnails on the website - ggpht.com
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ytimg.com
and you may need to also enable -
gstatic.com
for static content, scripting and some XHR stuff. I had all those enabled, but now I block googlevideo, because I don’t watch videos on youtube at all now.
The ads are served from doubleclick.net, so definitely block that.
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I hate those long form ads, if you have auto play on and don’t skip adds from time to time the adds will just stack up. The skip add feature is a valuable tool for YouTube, you are sharping their algorithm. I caved in and subscribed to YouTube premium a long time ago. Life is just less stressful without those constant adds. 
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Imma post it now. Its going to be the update gravity terminal output…
Infrastructure Series -- Recursive DNS and Adblocking DNS over TLS w/NGINX - #2 by PhaseLockedLoop
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If i click in a 20 second video, my recommended page transforms into only 20 seconds videos for 1 month. And auto play is broken (i mean is working as intended is just trash), after 1 video it will default to the same content creator longest video doesnt matter if you watched already or not.
Before auto play was so good… i miss old auto play
necroing for reasons…
a couple of days ago my home feed went blank… i expected this due to having all my histories turned off.
the last two days ive noticed when i click on youtube my gpu fans spin up…
the spin up is consistent. it lasts about 5 seconds and then fades…
if i click back to go back to the previous page off youtube and then go back again.
the spin up happens again…
i checked task manager and sure enough the gpu is spiking momentarily and then going back to zero.
in dev console theres 2 new additions both called generate. one of which seems to be pointing to a new api.
then something really odd happened … nothing was playing and all of a suddenly music faded in, gave me a few bar’s of the song Imagine Dragons & JID - Enemy, and faded out.
ive been back and forth to youtube all day and i hasn’t happened again with the music but the fans are still spinning up.
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Is this on Windows? I was at my friends house a couple weeks back and he was having similar issues. I think it is exacerbated by an issue with his AIO water cooler. A bit of messing around showed it was only YouTube causing the spike. His 5900X would jump up from 50’s C to 70’s C while my 1700X sat in the 30’s in the same room also watching YouTube. Plus I’m using an old Socket 775 cooler that doesn’t even fully cover the heat spreader in a case with maybe 1/4 the airflow.
I know his fan curves are messed up, as they go from barely audible to full blast. It was an expensive pre-built that wouldn’t even boot out of the box, so I have no doubt the thermal paste and other stuff needs to be investigated, but it’s kinda funny how even gaming doesn’t seem to be as hard on the system as YouTube.
i run a fin stack with a fan mate no aio…
my temps are fine.
its something happening between my browser and youtube thats causing a ramp up in the fans.
it might be an adblocker causing youtube to bawk.
it might have been the adblocker shitting the bed and let part of an ad though. i dunno…
but its defiantly something not right and its only just started.
i dont have super resolution enabled so that cant be the reason the gpu suddenly gets hot enough to turn the fans on…
so im off down the rabbit hole 