YouTube announces plans for a subscription music service

[Kent Sharkey]

The Verge[^]:

After spending months on revisions, YouTube confirmed today that it will launch a paid subscription service that lets users stream high-quality, ad-free music and music videos.

All the cat videos the world needs, for pennies a day

[PIEBALDconsult]

Did anyone ask them to?

[Lost User]

I don't have ads in my youtube-video's. Simply update your hosts-file :)

Bastard Programmer from Hell :suss: If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]

[Lost User]

The investors. Ads are not generating enough revenues, and there are people who will pay to not see them.

Bastard Programmer from Hell :suss: If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]

[PIEBALDconsult]

And another born every minute?

[Kent Sharkey]

You can stop the interstitials with a hosts entry? What's the entry look like?

TTFN - Kent

[Lost User]

Dunno which entry; it must be one from the mvps[^] file as far as I can tell. It blocks some ad-servers (and malware-servers) at the IP level, making them inaccesible regardless of the application requesting it.

Bastard Programmer from Hell :suss: If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]

[Agent__007]

Wow! I am gonna try that. Thanks! :thumbsup:

Your time will come, if you let it be right.

[mikepwilson]

They're google. why would they care if anyone asked them to?

[PIEBALDconsult]

I care about neither answer nor the question. Though I have heard that the silence will fall when the question is answered. (Or is that asked? I don't know. Whatever.)

[mikepwilson]

Nice. I block other stuff "for my own good" from mine and use adblock+ + ghostery for the rest. Do you have a loopback ad blocking hosts file reference you like? I imagine there are probably a bunch of them kicking around on ye olde innert00bz

[Lost User]

A few others that might be interesting;

• http://www.hosts-file.net/?s=Download[^]
• http://www.bluetack.co.uk/premium/downloads.html[^]
• http://www.daemonbernstein.com/hosts.html[^]
• https://trjlive.com/2014/04/trjlives-ultimate-ad-block-hosts-file/[^]
• http://www.hostsfile.org/hosts.html[^]

If you download them all you'll get some double entries. There are utilities available for merging and keeping them up to date.

Bastard Programmer from Hell :suss: If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]

[mikepwilson]

Awesome! Thanks for the list. Eh. If I can't manage to dedupe some hosts files then I need to hang it up as a programmer. I'll just bang that out in emacs.