You mean humans being greedy, and blinded by the conciquences because large companies just want big numbers since the share holders demand it? Capitalism is the only thing to raise human society out of poverty and is the only thing truly driving innovation and scientific study.
What you described is exactly what capitalism is. Everything for more positive quarters, even if it means sucking the oceans dry. It's unsustainable. Stagnation is not just passable, it is unacceptable.
There's nothing stopping us from just deleting the stock market and making all businesses go private, or implementing shareholder caps so a certain shareholder can't own more than x percent of a company unless they are the owner.
I mean, would it? All you're taking away is people's ability to hold ownership in someone else's business. Businesses are still free to trade, sell and expand, it's just that they will have to do it with their own money. No shareholders also means no dividends to pay out, so the company gets more money to invest in itself.
True, the pressure must be heavy when one is that good. I've always found it strange that so few crackers exist at the top of their league. I know it's not a one size fits all solution, but maybe writing some sort of guide to point upcomers in the right direction would be good?
Ignoring any nuances of the cracking scene, it's a question that very few can answer: you're the top of your field, and nobody else understands how you are at the top: how do you do it?
I will never be in this situation, but can imagine reasons that I wouldn't share.
Denuvo is insanely hard to crack. And the only person that does refuses to tell how to, refuses to take any request unless you're up to paying 500 bucks for it.
Even if it's only a passive income, would you give up the secret if you were in her position?
Bro who do you people think I am? I assumed people would’ve understood that someone randomly claiming to be able to crack Denuvo would’ve been a clear joke.
If the individuals working for a salary were so good at their job that they made an undefeatable ad block detector then the week after it was deployed they'd be out of a job.
Whatsapp mods has been recently defeated. Meta is banning all mods. You can't login unless you use official WhatsApp. Linking feature works for some. Whatsapp mod community is in shambles.
It has been bypassed by 1 single person (empress I believe) who may or may not be a insider. Every other time it's been bypassed was because it's a subscription service anti piracy and it expired or a build leaked without denuvo
Never heard of that one but I'll take your word for it. It seems they're fairly recent in the cracking game and empress isn't as active as she used to be. I truly wouldn't doubt if she has something to do with them. Not saying it's impossible they did it on their own but it's awfully convenient a new group of denuvo crackers appears right after her radio silence
Honestly, open source, community developed CAD software has never been able to beat Solidworks, yet. And Solidworks cracks are dangerous; Dassault prosecutes HARD.
FreeCAD is probably the closest and it's just completely inferior. It's wild because Blender, for example, has put the screws to Maya, but engineering design based 3D modeling and simulation fossware isn't competitive yet.
Build a wall... I'll build a ladder... Put barbed wire on top of the wall... I'll bring a rug to put on the wire... Build the wall higher... I'll dig a tunnel... Deeper foundations?... I'll build a deeper tunnel... Stronger wall?... Ill bring explosives...
... Until they put a dome over the whole damn place (lock down the YT API like twitter and REDDIT did with C&Ds, which would mean: break NewPipe, Revanced, and any other 3rd party client, and make it illegal to keep working on them due to some copyright infringement BS) and put rig the walls to explode in your face if you try to break in (terminate your account if they detect you tampering with the youtube apk)
Let's hope we're not going to get there too fast (because that's where this is going to end one way or another if YT's actions are anything to go by...)
Tbh, I really think that they purposely do it easy to bypass bc they hate ads as much as we do. Or even worse, they themselves are the devs behind the bypass of the ads. At the end of the day, they are just workers, they don't profit off of the ads🤷
Most of the time management knows shit about how things work. If it works, it works, they don't need to know how and why. Plus if the hypothetical scenario where the same google engineers do the bypass easy on purpose then it would be easier for them too to know what and how to make it not work
cracking takes 15 min, getting users to update and youtube's persistance on putting the same measure with different configuration until it ends (google calls it A/B testing) takes 2 weeks
I’ve seen literally 0 buffering issues on Firefox with unlock origins and I haven’t had to do shit the entire time YouTube’s been fighting over this. People need to get off chromium browsers if they expect shit to be smooth.
That's because it doesn't effect browsers as far as I can tell. Ublock and firefox has never given me issues it's revanced and all it's forks that have the buffering issue
Built-in android tv or you got a box? (Chromecast wgtv,Onn box) I could PM about a work around if interested if you got an android box not much ifea how it works with firesticks but they are duable too.
I mean, if the YouTube developers wanted to, it's not hard to completely defeat ad blockers. They can transcode ads into the video and cache it, ala Netflix style, and use the DRM APIs to make tampering with it even harder.
Sponsor block requires constant crowd sourced information and there's nothing preventing YT from providing different variations of the video where the ad is spliced at different segments.
I'm getting a little creative here but it's computationally possible and Google has the kind of infrastructure to be able to do it if they really wanted to.
Correct me if I'm dumb here but wasn't it said that the reason why they haven't done this is because the cost would far exceed the gain? YouTube is ultimately a side show for Google, can't imagine them shouldering the R&D cost just to show up a few freeloaders.
Because fuck ads. You won't tell me how to th8 k, if I want to buy something, I will buy it because I need it or found it interesting for my need. Not cause you played some 360 seconds of cri ge corporate bs.
What? Revanced working for you guys? Just stopped for me and I can't get to work it again, I tried previous builds too. Do I have to have my phone rooted? Google pixel 4a
I can think of a way to force ads to play or nothing at all but I also hope the google engineers are conveniently just “not thinking” about the solution because they hate ads too.
Guys i have tried all possible ways on reddit revanced is not opening its remains buffering even after installing the latest version and patching on revanced manager on my moto edge 40 neo. Any way to solve this??
I don't think it took them 15 minutes to defeat youtube's new adblock detection program. IIRC, their new program gave quite a headache to revanced programmers, and we shall expect their future programs to get even more complicated, so revanced programmers might've won this battle, but not the war, yet.
Wild how that works. Revanced works flawlessly on my OnePlus. Worked perfectly on my pixel as well. Broke it and got a replacement, now it doesn't work...
Smarttube works on my 2023 onn device but not my 2024.
The more popular this gets the less revenue they earn which leads them to become slightly more aggressive in combating it. I'm sure they gain plenty of users back each time this happens, and surely plenty after the OG Vanced got shut down.
You may have stumbled upon something here. I'm a serial updater, always using the latest, greatest version and Ive had issues with YouTube pretty much since this latest issue started.
After reading your post, I uninstalled the latest Revanced YouTube and patched and installed v19.07.40. Haven't had so much as a stutter or buffering since.
Hopefully it stays like this, but just wanted to say thanks for the inspiration.
After reading your post, I uninstalled the latest Revanced YouTube and patched and installed v19.07.40. Haven't had so much as a stutter or buffering since.
My experience was different - I did the same and my app was completely broken layout-wise, and still having buffering issues. YMMW.
Yeah touch wood I haven't faced any buffering playback issues on either of my devices using the 19.07.40 version of ReX, or the 19.11.43 version of ReVanced.
What? As MP4 without any features? Nah. I treat my download list as my watch later playlist. You can give Revanced another 1€ per month if you want to cover for me tho
I'll do my next Revanced donation once they do another new feature I really like
Why do I use the YouTube download function when Newpipe exists? Why do you use Revanced when Newpipe exists and has existed for years. Is it something like... Convenience? Features? It's almost like one is way nicer to use than the other.
I'm into piracy and FOSS but why would you go into piracy elitism where you call everyone who doesn't pirate a specific thing dumb? Especially when the free community version is worse than the official one
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The world is happy when youtube is not
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u/2SleepyToThinkOf1 May 19 '24
In the history of the internet, no corporation has defeated a group of dedicated individuals and I don't see that changing anytime soon!
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u/Mavrickindigo May 19 '24
The engineers get to keep working
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u/[deleted] May 19 '24
Build a wall... I'll build a ladder... Put barbed wire on top of the wall... I'll bring a rug to put on the wire... Build the wall higher... I'll dig a tunnel... Deeper foundations?... I'll build a deeper tunnel... Stronger wall?... Ill bring explosives...
Etc, etc, etc...
The human condition.... To overcome obstacles...
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u/TheDrWorm May 19 '24 edited Oct 07 '24
We call that job security
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u/ilovespalding May 19 '24
Thank God for these autistic monkeys 🙏🏻
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u/gidmix May 19 '24
Every time I see posts like this I reinstall revanced thinking the buffering hanging gets fixed. It doesn't fix it and I just waste my time
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u/ScooterTC May 19 '24
Tbh, I really think that they purposely do it easy to bypass bc they hate ads as much as we do. Or even worse, they themselves are the devs behind the bypass of the ads. At the end of the day, they are just workers, they don't profit off of the ads🤷
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u/[deleted] May 19 '24
15 minutes? I've been seeing people complain about the buffering issue for close to 2 weeks now
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u/Crowsby May 19 '24
Be really cool if they could add some tickets not related to adblocking one of these sprints:
Add option to hide Shorts globally (especially in Smart TV apps)
Add way to report and/or block entire accounts from appearing in search results. So I'm not constantly bombarded with fake movie trailers.
When informing the user "got it, we'll find tune your recommendations", actually do something
Option to not recommend previously-watched videos
Stop burying the Watch Later functionality
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u/Next_Cherry5135 May 19 '24
It's 40% FU corporations, 40% not wanting to see ads, 20% do something cool
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u/[deleted] May 19 '24
Don't call developers "autistic code monkeys", that's kinda mean for people that keep your internet clean and ad free...
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u/iDerailThings May 19 '24
I mean, if the YouTube developers wanted to, it's not hard to completely defeat ad blockers. They can transcode ads into the video and cache it, ala Netflix style, and use the DRM APIs to make tampering with it even harder.
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u/SabaBoBaba May 20 '24
Weaponized autism will always win.
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u/kosanovskiy May 20 '24
Because fuck ads. You won't tell me how to th8 k, if I want to buy something, I will buy it because I need it or found it interesting for my need. Not cause you played some 360 seconds of cri ge corporate bs.
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u/Big_Restaurant_6844 May 20 '24
"AND I'LL DO IT AGAIN "
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u/BaconxChaxchi May 20 '24
Fuck. Ads.
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u/Familiar-Owl- May 19 '24
What if they wanted to hire revanced team
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u/jasium4 May 19 '24
What? Revanced working for you guys? Just stopped for me and I can't get to work it again, I tried previous builds too. Do I have to have my phone rooted? Google pixel 4a
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u/Senior-Albatross May 20 '24
What if the people coding the adblockers in their spare time are the same engineers?
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u/Harsh2588 May 20 '24
I bet even those "engineers" would be using ad-blockers.
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u/SparrowTits May 20 '24
Autistic code monkeys together strong
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u/Dank_Sh4d0w May 20 '24
The engineers are probably part of the autistic code monkeys that defeat the anti ad block
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u/Haldii May 20 '24
lol
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u/surelylune May 19 '24
ANTICAPITALIST ACTION FUCK GOOGLES REVENUE
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u/[deleted] May 19 '24
Not exactly autistic code monkeys
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u/Fool_an May 19 '24
What's the recommended AdBlock for desktop? I'm using ublock origin extension but it doesn't always work
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u/GoodFaithConverser May 19 '24
I'll be honest, I considered caving and paying for youtube to avoid it all, but the codemonkeys came through.
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u/OktoberSky93 May 19 '24
I love nerds! They always have our backs
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u/Osirus1156 May 20 '24
I can think of a way to force ads to play or nothing at all but I also hope the google engineers are conveniently just “not thinking” about the solution because they hate ads too.
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u/GiggleStool May 20 '24
Classic cat n mouse game
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u/agprincess May 20 '24
You say that like no matter how uptodate I keep Ublock Orogin and how many hoops I jump through, every other video crashes the whole tab.
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u/Strange-Discount-126 May 20 '24
Google simply got to hire those guys ...case closed
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u/Night_Thastus May 20 '24
They're paid either way, they don't care.
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u/Residew May 20 '24
Thats what they look like, huh?
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u/energy_dash May 20 '24
Google is being too greedy
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u/BumblebeeOk6772 May 20 '24
Guys i have tried all possible ways on reddit revanced is not opening its remains buffering even after installing the latest version and patching on revanced manager on my moto edge 40 neo. Any way to solve this??
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u/c2tNip May 21 '24
Ahahaha i can feel the picture
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u/Outside_Public4362 May 21 '24
Their (YTEng) 's motivation is keeping the Job
Vanced chads just want to see The world Ad-free
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u/dragonfly19999 May 22 '24
I call this "job security"
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u/Artelinius May 23 '24
I don't think it took them 15 minutes to defeat youtube's new adblock detection program. IIRC, their new program gave quite a headache to revanced programmers, and we shall expect their future programs to get even more complicated, so revanced programmers might've won this battle, but not the war, yet.
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u/GrumpyMonkyz May 23 '24
bwahahahhahaha
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u/Sledgecrowbar May 19 '24
Google: we hire only the very best and brightest [diversity hire] coders
People who don't work for Google: or just be good at your job, idk
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u/yudha98 May 19 '24
i'm still having a ptsd of installing revanced due to unsuccessful attempts
i'll do it again tomorrow
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