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How hard is it to selectively block YouTube?

SDET

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I was sitting at a Wifi hotspot in central Cuba, watching videos in Spanish about repression from the Castro regime. CubaNet, DiarioDeCuba and others were there unfettered. It was one of those things that make you say "hmmmm".
 
SDET said:
I was sitting at a Wifi hotspot in central Cuba, watching videos in Spanish about repression from the Castro regime. CubaNet, DiarioDeCuba and others were there unfettered. It was one of those things that make you say "hmmmm".
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You think Cuba is changing?
 
SDET said:
I was sitting at a Wifi hotspot in central Cuba, watching videos in Spanish about repression from the Castro regime. CubaNet, DiarioDeCuba and others were there unfettered. It was one of those things that make you say "hmmmm".
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It could be the government, doing it or it could be the third party firewall blocking stuff based on the policy of the individual owners of whatever wifi you were using. Hard to tell without some more info. But it's really easy.
 
Not difficult.

A very simple procedure to avoid Video Ads is to modify the (famous) HOSTS file letting your operating system to resolve the domains involved in the ADS network with ip 127.0.0.1 (your own system) actually blocking downloads of pages, code and ADS videos. I prefer this procedure than many others you can find on internet because it’s not necessary to install anything on you computer.

https://www.lolloland.com/2015/06/06/how-to-remove-video-ads-youtube-software-firebug-method/

There are other methods but this one is simple.
 
joG said:
You think Cuba is changing?
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Loosening of their train-wreck of an anti-capitalist economic paradigm seems to say so.

Unless you meant just politically not economically, then probably not anytime soon.
 
SDET said:
I was sitting at a Wifi hotspot in central Cuba, watching videos in Spanish about repression from the Castro regime. CubaNet, DiarioDeCuba and others were there unfettered. It was one of those things that make you say "hmmmm".
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I'm envious!
 
joG said:
You think Cuba is changing?
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I was risking arrest. Several friendly people told me so. Cuba has changed, but is still repressive. I heard that if an impatient child says that he doesn't want to be like Che, now he will be asked "Would you like to stay out of trouble?". Fifty years ago, such a child would have been immediately branded a counter-revolutionary with him and his parents punished.

I was also reminded that while I could be banned from Cuba, and go on with my life in the USA, that natives get saddled with a criminal record for such things.
 
akyron said:
Not difficult.

A very simple procedure to avoid Video Ads is to modify the (famous) HOSTS file letting your operating system to resolve the domains involved in the ADS network with ip 127.0.0.1 (your own system) actually blocking downloads of pages, code and ADS videos. I prefer this procedure than many others you can find on internet because it’s not necessary to install anything on you computer.

https://www.lolloland.com/2015/06/06/how-to-remove-video-ads-youtube-software-firebug-method/

There are other methods but this one is simple.
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Well I'll be damned. Neat.
 
JANFU said:
You tried it??
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Well I was able put the sites in the clients list, but just one problem: I didn't first have a control. In other words I didn't first have a youtube video I could experiment with. Do you know of one with an ad at the beginning?
 
Cardinal said:
Well I was able put the sites in the clients list, but just one problem: I didn't first have a control. In other words I didn't first have a youtube video I could experiment with. Do you know of one with an ad at the beginning?
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No I do not
 
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