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[–] Caligvla@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 2 years ago

Well uh... Whatever they're doing ain't working for me, because I'm yet to see one of these popups.

[–] Smacks@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (5 children)

Vanilla Brave blocks ads and doesn't show the blocker. Ublock & Better YouTube will cause it to trigger. Tampermonkey script prevents the blocker from appearing after disabling/enabling Ublock for a video or two.

Fuck YouTube and Google. They make enough money selling my data.

Edit: Okay I get it guys, Brave bad

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[–] meldrik@lemmy.wtf 5 points 2 years ago

Switched to FreeTube. Problem solved.

[–] sour@kbin.social 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] aksdb@feddit.de 5 points 2 years ago (13 children)

I got fed up with this shit and invested a bit of time into getting a working Premium Family plan through a cheap country (Ukraine is about $4 per month). I invited my whole family (parents included) so essentially 6 people have an ad-free YouTube now for less than $1 each (per month). I assume that's still less than what they have gotten by serving us a shit ton of ads. And I am rid of that cat and mouse game for a while.

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[–] FartsWithAnAccent@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago

lol, good luck with that Google

[–] ReginaPhalange@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Question. Wouldn't the catch-all solution for YT is to pair the AJAX calls for the video with a "view video key", and that key to be found out after running a deeply obviouscated javascript served with the html of the "view video" page?

They could even bundle some of the key-building-js with the ad being served.

At some point in order to "block the ad" , the ad blocker would have to run or analyze tons of JS code , making the ordeal to difficult to compute.

[–] cypherpunks@lemmy.ml 6 points 2 years ago

I think that is actually what they've already been doing for at least a decade?

Whenever you download a youtube video using something other than a js-enabled browser, then I think something like yt-dlp's jsinterp.py needs to evaluate some javascript to extract the key.

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[–] BilboBargains@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago

Let the blocking war commence. Beligerents are referred to as Blockheads.

[–] Albus@lemmings.world 3 points 2 years ago (4 children)
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[–] desdo88@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

or at least they try to :P

[–] m3t00@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

not blocking ads, scripts. ctrl-shift-c

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