• Mika@beehaw.org
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    1 year ago

    if youtube could win against adblockers, they wouldn’t need to get manifest v3 to destroy their functions. firefox users stay winning

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      1 year ago

      They can go to extreme lengths to make it work, such as not playing the video if not adds are detected or embedding the ad directly into the video. Not even Firefox can escape those things.

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        1 year ago

        there are ways to counter that like fetching an embed player and imposing that onto the page, or sending an api call that says the ad played, or vpn to a country without ads for a tiny portion of the loading process, etc

        we proved that with twitch where you can still very much block ads despite all they’ve done to avoid it

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          If they inject it into the main stream itself is it possible to block it? I don’t really see how.

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            1 year ago

            well some countries legally have no ads and you could vpn to them specifically for the video fetching part and get the adfree version. alternatively things like maybe an AI powered sponsorblock extension could be created in response