YouTube has been spotted testing server-side ads, which could pose a problem to ad blockers.

  • @[email protected]
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    569 months ago

    they cracked down on adblockers, adblockers got better.

    They’re trying to get around adblockers again, adblockers will get better again

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          109 months ago

          Chad Raymond Hill who refuses to accept donatoins or sponsorships of any kind.

          That being said the people that maintain the filter lists I believe, don’t quoute me on this, you can donate to a few of them. Really depends if they mention it on their githubs though and you pretty much have to go about finding them on your own as there’s no real centralized list of all the people that contribue to the filter lists.

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            49 months ago

            That’s correct. uBlock Plus’ Github says he won’t accept donations but give instead to the unsung heroes maintaining the lists on which his software depends.

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          39 months ago

          YouTube shell company running highly effective subscription based ad blocker! Hahaha I could see it.

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        49 months ago

        If anything, adblock taught me about pi-hole, which brought me into the raspberry pi world.

        And id rather spend money on that.

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        39 months ago

        adguard for windows, which is also available on CrappleComputers and I think it’s also on linux

    • @[email protected]
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      59 months ago

      I’m not so sure. Once they are embedded in the video they become hard to block. Twitch is like this now.

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        49 months ago

        And yet there are userscripts you can use to block out twitch ads. I haven’t seen one for months now despite not being a subscriber.

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        29 months ago

        I’m holding out some hope, since twitch is live but YouTube is pre-buffered, but they could still block loading past the ad on a timer or a key computed from hashing the decoded frames of the ad, idk