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YouTube tests blocking videos unless you disable ad blockers (www.bleepingcomputer.com)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Couple years ago a Youtube-Googler told me that adblockers are their big worry. Suckers.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (7 children)

I'm certainly not an expert in this, but surely there are ways to get around this right? Pihole? Could ad blockers fake ads being played?

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

@talos I wonder if they'll start burning the ads at the beginning of the video if downloaded via yt-dlp or something. If ads start showing up in mpv I'll probably sigh at least pretty heavily.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I've been poking around with Invidious lately, does anyone know if this'd be a counter to these blocks?

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