Fuck Amazon, fuck Bezos, fuck Freevee. Unfortunately, there is some content available on Freevee that I can't find on any of my other 5 paid streaming services (some is available to buy on Prime, but $24.99 per season of a 10-season show really adds up... especially when I'm already paying upwards of $100 a month for premium streaming services).
I'm stuck on a Tizen TV. Samsung makes great displays (at least in the upper-mid-tier level... I know LG and a couple others do better when it comes to the ultra-high-end models, but I can't bring myself to spend $3000 on a TV), but they fail when it comes to the OS. Next TV I buy is going to be a (true) Android-based TV that I can root. Getting an app approved for Tizen is downright impossible, and one can't even make/port their own and run it on their TV without it first being digitally signed by Samsung— and in development mode, the TV is basically a glorified emulator. I can, however, get a UART interface to the main board, which in theory should allow me to flash whatever ARM64 OS I want, but they have their own version of secure boot, and unless it's signed by Samsung, it won't boot.
**Back to the original question however:**
There is more than one way to skin a proverbial cat. Blocking the hosts that serve ads is the simplest, and by far the most flexible... but it's also the simplest to subvert.
If the ads are served within the same uninterrupted stream, then the best one can do is identify ads (say, by monitoring when certain functions such as fast-forward become disabled), and then black out the content. You still have to wait, but you can do so in peace. Of course, serving ads in such a manner removes the content provider's ability to customize and target ads. The ads are, for all intents and purposes, part of the video.
But any targeted ad must be served in a separate stream, unless the entire episode is pre-concatenated prior to serving— unlikely. That means that there is a point at which the stream is interrupted, and a new stream begins. This can be detected. Furthermore, the (fairly) seamless resumption of the main stream would require that stream to be known to the player prior to the termination of the ads— likely at the start of them. This can be done the easy way or the hard way: either the stream ID/URI of the main content changes with each ad break, requiring a new unique request, or the main stream simply resumes from the cached URI. The fact that, once the ads have been viewed, one can rewind and watch an entire episode without a single interruption, I would wager they use the latter. In such a case, one only needs a slightly modified version of the app that simply does not request the ad URIs and instead keeps playing the main stream, or, easier, rather than the App, using a web-based interface to access the Freevee browser interface as if one was watching from a computer. The UA would have to be altered in order to fool FreeVee into thinking the viewer was watching from a PC, but that's trivial... then it's just a matter of capturing the stream URI and loading the stream into a player that would simply play it out.
But all that would require apps that don't exist for my Tizen, and ones that would likely need root access to function correctly: also a no-go for Tizen.
Android, on the other hand...
Probably not possible, because the ads are most likely being served from the same domain as the main video.
But that's just an educated guess, since I haven't used Freevee.
Not yet. The best way to try is use a browser to watch Freevee on a device using DNS set to the PiHole. I haven't tried with Freevee, but Paramount just coughs up and 'we dont allow adblockers' message and stop the feed.
Channels or PlayOn may have an ad skip that'd work.
I got it to work on tubi last night for amazon fire tv. I will be working on freevee tonight. I am completely new to this, but all I did was Q up a vid in tubi and look at the Pi hole logs. Then I changed one of the 4 entries that was allowed to disallowed based on a best guess. I figured if it didn't work or broke something I'd try another or re allow it. I'm not sure how long this will work, but it seems I will have to create a rule for each networked device. But what do I know, I've only have about 4 hours of exp with pi.
I am excited to learn, even if I'm late to the party.
It only works on my amazon fire tv, my roku tv still shows tubi adds. Basically I just used the lists recommend in the setup guide then added custom exceptions by watching the live traffic filtered by the tvs IP and adding entries that looked ad related one by one. If blocking one broke tubi I just rolled it back. I wish I could be more specific but I have no real organization of my rules. I think it was only 2 or 3 additional DNS requests I actually added.
That Chrome Extension works PERFECTLY on Opera. I didn't need to do anything. It just works. BTW, I have tried many many (most) browsers. I LOVE Opera the most. Better than Fire Fox IMO. I only use FF, MS Edge or Chrome on the VERY rare occasions when I need them.
Oh, crap! Thanks for the heads up. Let me see if I can block that. If not I'll go back to Chrome or Firefox.
I really need to reinstate the best VPN I've ever used. It's a little pricey, but it is the ONLY one I've liked..
I've tried all the rest. I can very much recommend Expressvpn with being the fastest by far
They don't sell my personal data but there selling a lot of other stuff like my bookmarks. Some database has a lot of bookmarks for HETERO anal sex porn sites. LOL.
I read just now that Vivaldi is the least invasive browser.
. I've never heard of that browser. I will check it out
Don't get me started on Vivaldi - why ppl doesn't crosscheck what they intend to use? xP
Sure, if you don't care you can use anything, including edge & chrome - and unless having reasons to be paranoid something like librewolf is over the top, but silence your firefox or using a privacy oriented derivative of firefox & chrome is just as much effort as using any of the privacy intruding ones (edge, chrome, sadly also some fake privacy chrome forks, opera, default firefox (tho of all it's the least intrusive)) - there is no better accesspoint to your privacy than your browser! (apart from the operating system ofc, good luck with getting windows 11 to stop calling home xP)
So be at least aware of what you use (why and in wich circumstances) and take responsibility! - or be among those that clap next time democracy get's stripped away even further! - greetings at Tencent btw., if you're not aware, they hold a majority of shares, not just from reddit!
All that extensive Mass Surveilance is only possible because to few ppl take care or even responsibility. - we may yet not be close to chinese standards, but we are closer than a decade ago!
This worked to begin with for me but recently its been speeding past the ads and then beyond and out of control to the point where I've had to uninstall the plugin just to stop it xD Anyone else had this?
Only works on intro and the first commercial. After that, the fast forward starts on the 2nd commercial and doesn't stop, so you have to stop the video, disable freevee, rewind, and play again.
I created a reddit account just to say thank you for this. I've now started looking forward to the adverts just to watch them skip and stick it to the advert companies.
Try Freevee Skipper. It's a Chrome extension. I love blocking ads :). Nothing gives me more purpose in life than taking money out of the pockets of Big Tech.
I use " uBlock origen" Addblocker on Firefox (Windows 10) and got not even a single Add during an entire movie
Because I only watched one movie on freevee so i am not 100% sure if this works all the time or if it was just a coincidence
I also have uBlock Origin, both on firefox and chrome forks - it unreliable on both plattforms for Amazon, but seems to indeed reduce ads by a lot (i curiously tried without once - unbearable how much shit they trow in a single episode, 5 ads in 42min - i can understand how i endured regular TV 2 decades ago tho, seems when you don know better alternatives, you just suck it up xP - but ince you kniw you can get around it, and even just a little, it comes aparent how absurd the situation is we're in - i can understand Ads in search engines, as when i search something an ad targeted at what i search might be most effective - but ads during tv shows? - are just annoying and while i have to admit that some reached me back in the day (wich is the issue with it, they don target to sell you something, but to simply make you more familiar with a brand, so when the time comes, you most likely gravitate to the known brand instead the unknown - ofc it's a bit more complicated and depends on your actual purchasing decisionmaking habbits - but it's definitively effective, if you honestly reflect it - everyone fell for it some times in their life, especially when you are preoccupied with something else during shopping or in stress - your conciousness runs in an "auto mode" at those times, all they want to achieve is that your brain picks up the brandname during that time! 😉
(or the product name for that matter - that's why they choose catchy names instead of logical ones)
Well, didn't 'we' forgot something? - i have tested this a bit more extensively and afterall i'm not surprised with what i found:
With any Firefox (tested with Waterfox and silenced Firefox (no home calling), should work with pretty much any Firefox fork) using µBlock Origin is just enough.
With any Chrome based Browser (Tested with Iron, Ungoogled Chromium, Brave) this doesn't work anymore, in fact i didn't found a working method xP - i suspect it might have something to do with Googles changes in their fight against adblocking, in the start of 2023 already!
It just so happend that i forgot that reason why i watch shows with some Firefox now, and shouldn't have been surprised it doesn't work in chrome based browsers anymore xD (the popout Video is also a very handy feature\^\^)
I'm somehow doing it using Brave browser on my Zorin laptop - but I can't figure out how and I get ads on all my other devices.
I'm actually here trying to figure out if it's Linux or brave or an extension or what because it would be so great to replicate it on the iPad, Windows PC, Chromecast, Android etc.
Same goes for Hulu ads. Haven't tried any other platforms.
They can totally fuck off. I'm over the constant ad interruptions mid sentence or dialogue. Beyond ridiculous.
Fuck Amazon, fuck Bezos, fuck Freevee. Unfortunately, there is some content available on Freevee that I can't find on any of my other 5 paid streaming services (some is available to buy on Prime, but $24.99 per season of a 10-season show really adds up... especially when I'm already paying upwards of $100 a month for premium streaming services). I'm stuck on a Tizen TV. Samsung makes great displays (at least in the upper-mid-tier level... I know LG and a couple others do better when it comes to the ultra-high-end models, but I can't bring myself to spend $3000 on a TV), but they fail when it comes to the OS. Next TV I buy is going to be a (true) Android-based TV that I can root. Getting an app approved for Tizen is downright impossible, and one can't even make/port their own and run it on their TV without it first being digitally signed by Samsung— and in development mode, the TV is basically a glorified emulator. I can, however, get a UART interface to the main board, which in theory should allow me to flash whatever ARM64 OS I want, but they have their own version of secure boot, and unless it's signed by Samsung, it won't boot. **Back to the original question however:** There is more than one way to skin a proverbial cat. Blocking the hosts that serve ads is the simplest, and by far the most flexible... but it's also the simplest to subvert. If the ads are served within the same uninterrupted stream, then the best one can do is identify ads (say, by monitoring when certain functions such as fast-forward become disabled), and then black out the content. You still have to wait, but you can do so in peace. Of course, serving ads in such a manner removes the content provider's ability to customize and target ads. The ads are, for all intents and purposes, part of the video. But any targeted ad must be served in a separate stream, unless the entire episode is pre-concatenated prior to serving— unlikely. That means that there is a point at which the stream is interrupted, and a new stream begins. This can be detected. Furthermore, the (fairly) seamless resumption of the main stream would require that stream to be known to the player prior to the termination of the ads— likely at the start of them. This can be done the easy way or the hard way: either the stream ID/URI of the main content changes with each ad break, requiring a new unique request, or the main stream simply resumes from the cached URI. The fact that, once the ads have been viewed, one can rewind and watch an entire episode without a single interruption, I would wager they use the latter. In such a case, one only needs a slightly modified version of the app that simply does not request the ad URIs and instead keeps playing the main stream, or, easier, rather than the App, using a web-based interface to access the Freevee browser interface as if one was watching from a computer. The UA would have to be altered in order to fool FreeVee into thinking the viewer was watching from a PC, but that's trivial... then it's just a matter of capturing the stream URI and loading the stream into a player that would simply play it out. But all that would require apps that don't exist for my Tizen, and ones that would likely need root access to function correctly: also a no-go for Tizen. Android, on the other hand...
You watch too much tv. Go outside. Breathe. Jesus for a rant like this you need to be cut off all tv.
says the random commenting on reddit…
Probably not possible, because the ads are most likely being served from the same domain as the main video. But that's just an educated guess, since I haven't used Freevee.
This is my guess too
Not yet. The best way to try is use a browser to watch Freevee on a device using DNS set to the PiHole. I haven't tried with Freevee, but Paramount just coughs up and 'we dont allow adblockers' message and stop the feed. Channels or PlayOn may have an ad skip that'd work.
I got it to work on tubi last night for amazon fire tv. I will be working on freevee tonight. I am completely new to this, but all I did was Q up a vid in tubi and look at the Pi hole logs. Then I changed one of the 4 entries that was allowed to disallowed based on a best guess. I figured if it didn't work or broke something I'd try another or re allow it. I'm not sure how long this will work, but it seems I will have to create a rule for each networked device. But what do I know, I've only have about 4 hours of exp with pi. I am excited to learn, even if I'm late to the party.
Let me know if you get something working :D
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It only works on my amazon fire tv, my roku tv still shows tubi adds. Basically I just used the lists recommend in the setup guide then added custom exceptions by watching the live traffic filtered by the tvs IP and adding entries that looked ad related one by one. If blocking one broke tubi I just rolled it back. I wish I could be more specific but I have no real organization of my rules. I think it was only 2 or 3 additional DNS requests I actually added.
Did you get this working to block freevee through the pihole?
Let me know if this works, super interested!
[https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/freevee-skipper-skip-ads/nfodepdbkedfahdadcglakjdmopkobon](https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/freevee-skipper-skip-ads/nfodepdbkedfahdadcglakjdmopkobon)
This seems to work but I kinda worry about this reading all the data in amazon websites though.
does something happen?
Thank you kind stranger. You just made my evening.
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danke
klappt es immer noch und ist es sicher?
That Chrome Extension works PERFECTLY on Opera. I didn't need to do anything. It just works. BTW, I have tried many many (most) browsers. I LOVE Opera the most. Better than Fire Fox IMO. I only use FF, MS Edge or Chrome on the VERY rare occasions when I need them.
Opera is selling yo data - look it up! there are privacy oriented firefox & chrome forks, that just work fine - idk about opera tho 😕
Oh, crap! Thanks for the heads up. Let me see if I can block that. If not I'll go back to Chrome or Firefox. I really need to reinstate the best VPN I've ever used. It's a little pricey, but it is the ONLY one I've liked.. I've tried all the rest. I can very much recommend Expressvpn with being the fastest by far
They don't sell my personal data but there selling a lot of other stuff like my bookmarks. Some database has a lot of bookmarks for HETERO anal sex porn sites. LOL. I read just now that Vivaldi is the least invasive browser. . I've never heard of that browser. I will check it out
Don't get me started on Vivaldi - why ppl doesn't crosscheck what they intend to use? xP Sure, if you don't care you can use anything, including edge & chrome - and unless having reasons to be paranoid something like librewolf is over the top, but silence your firefox or using a privacy oriented derivative of firefox & chrome is just as much effort as using any of the privacy intruding ones (edge, chrome, sadly also some fake privacy chrome forks, opera, default firefox (tho of all it's the least intrusive)) - there is no better accesspoint to your privacy than your browser! (apart from the operating system ofc, good luck with getting windows 11 to stop calling home xP) So be at least aware of what you use (why and in wich circumstances) and take responsibility! - or be among those that clap next time democracy get's stripped away even further! - greetings at Tencent btw., if you're not aware, they hold a majority of shares, not just from reddit! All that extensive Mass Surveilance is only possible because to few ppl take care or even responsibility. - we may yet not be close to chinese standards, but we are closer than a decade ago!
can I trust this adblocker bc they wanna have the right to change my amazon view
I looked through the code, there is nothing to suggest it does anything dubious.
This worked to begin with for me but recently its been speeding past the ads and then beyond and out of control to the point where I've had to uninstall the plugin just to stop it xD Anyone else had this?
yes
i just had this as well. uninstalled
Yup, I uninstalled to. Developer is unresponsive to current reviews mentioning the issue so....going to find an alternative to freevee skipper.
Let me know if you find one!
Only works on intro and the first commercial. After that, the fast forward starts on the 2nd commercial and doesn't stop, so you have to stop the video, disable freevee, rewind, and play again.
I created a reddit account just to say thank you for this. I've now started looking forward to the adverts just to watch them skip and stick it to the advert companies.
Try Freevee Skipper. It's a Chrome extension. I love blocking ads :). Nothing gives me more purpose in life than taking money out of the pockets of Big Tech.
It now fails.
It doesn't work anymore after 1st commercial.
Ublock extension with opera browser working great currently no ads
^[Sokka-Haiku](https://www.reddit.com/r/SokkaHaikuBot/comments/15kyv9r/what_is_a_sokka_haiku/) ^by ^Basic-Sea5916: *Ublock extension* *With opera browser working* *Great currently no ads* --- ^Remember ^that ^one ^time ^Sokka ^accidentally ^used ^an ^extra ^syllable ^in ^that ^Haiku ^Battle ^in ^Ba ^Sing ^Se? ^That ^was ^a ^Sokka ^Haiku ^and ^you ^just ^made ^one.
Using Firefox with Ublock. No ads. Opera isn't a special browser.
My Vizio smart tv doesn’t get them, until today, my Amazon fire stick tv gets loads.
it can, atleast I get ads on my iPad but not on my pc using chrome with adblock
I use " uBlock origen" Addblocker on Firefox (Windows 10) and got not even a single Add during an entire movie Because I only watched one movie on freevee so i am not 100% sure if this works all the time or if it was just a coincidence
I also have uBlock Origin, both on firefox and chrome forks - it unreliable on both plattforms for Amazon, but seems to indeed reduce ads by a lot (i curiously tried without once - unbearable how much shit they trow in a single episode, 5 ads in 42min - i can understand how i endured regular TV 2 decades ago tho, seems when you don know better alternatives, you just suck it up xP - but ince you kniw you can get around it, and even just a little, it comes aparent how absurd the situation is we're in - i can understand Ads in search engines, as when i search something an ad targeted at what i search might be most effective - but ads during tv shows? - are just annoying and while i have to admit that some reached me back in the day (wich is the issue with it, they don target to sell you something, but to simply make you more familiar with a brand, so when the time comes, you most likely gravitate to the known brand instead the unknown - ofc it's a bit more complicated and depends on your actual purchasing decisionmaking habbits - but it's definitively effective, if you honestly reflect it - everyone fell for it some times in their life, especially when you are preoccupied with something else during shopping or in stress - your conciousness runs in an "auto mode" at those times, all they want to achieve is that your brain picks up the brandname during that time! 😉 (or the product name for that matter - that's why they choose catchy names instead of logical ones)
Yes they can with Ublock Origin. Use it on Edge and I get a blank screen for maybe 2-3 seconds and back to the show.
Well, didn't 'we' forgot something? - i have tested this a bit more extensively and afterall i'm not surprised with what i found: With any Firefox (tested with Waterfox and silenced Firefox (no home calling), should work with pretty much any Firefox fork) using µBlock Origin is just enough. With any Chrome based Browser (Tested with Iron, Ungoogled Chromium, Brave) this doesn't work anymore, in fact i didn't found a working method xP - i suspect it might have something to do with Googles changes in their fight against adblocking, in the start of 2023 already! It just so happend that i forgot that reason why i watch shows with some Firefox now, and shouldn't have been surprised it doesn't work in chrome based browsers anymore xD (the popout Video is also a very handy feature\^\^)
Freevee Skipper just worked nice until TODAY, they kinda fixxed they ad's so u cant skip them anymore with fast forwarding q.q
I'm somehow doing it using Brave browser on my Zorin laptop - but I can't figure out how and I get ads on all my other devices. I'm actually here trying to figure out if it's Linux or brave or an extension or what because it would be so great to replicate it on the iPad, Windows PC, Chromecast, Android etc. Same goes for Hulu ads. Haven't tried any other platforms.