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Inside the 'arms race' between YouTube and ad blockers / Against all odds, open source hackers keep outfoxing one of the wealthiest companies.::YouTube's dramatic content gatekeeping decisions of late have a long history behind them, and there's an equally long history of these defenses being bypassed.

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[–] [email protected] 102 points 11 months ago (10 children)

And I am fucking loving it. With this move, Google has effectively started an arms race between the team they have implementing this Adblock-blocking crap and the vast majority of the technically competent internet users in the world.

Unless the rules of how the internet works fundamentally change, Google is not going to win.

[–] [email protected] 65 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Why do you think they were pushing so hard for WEI? They did try to fundamentally change how the internet works.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 11 months ago
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