starman@programming.dev to Linux@lemmy.ml · 8 months agoVLC Media Player Plans to Add Online Media Streamingnews.itsfoss.comexternal-linkmessage-square56fedilinkarrow-up1261arrow-down15
arrow-up1256arrow-down1external-linkVLC Media Player Plans to Add Online Media Streamingnews.itsfoss.comstarman@programming.dev to Linux@lemmy.ml · 8 months agomessage-square56fedilink
minus-squarerequiem@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up6arrow-down2·8 months agoSlightly wondering whether this is a roundabout way of creating Ad-Free YouTube playback capabilities. “Hey community, we are adding support for ad enabled streams. Would be a shame if you hated that so much you wrote some ad blocking plugins.”
minus-squareGabu@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up4·8 months agoYou can already watch youtube ad-free with VLC…
minus-squareBreakDecks@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·8 months agoVery generous of you to assume that adding native support for advertising is a move to protect users from advertising…
Slightly wondering whether this is a roundabout way of creating Ad-Free YouTube playback capabilities. “Hey community, we are adding support for ad enabled streams. Would be a shame if you hated that so much you wrote some ad blocking plugins.”
You can already watch youtube ad-free with VLC…
That’s pretty cool, I didn’t know!
Very generous of you to assume that adding native support for advertising is a move to protect users from advertising…
Now you put it that way… 😃