• AphoticDev
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    682 years ago

    It doesn’t matter if YouTube can detect uBlock. The great thing about uBlock is you can just block the anti-adblock script. Since Javascript is executed on the user’s computer, it’s trivial to just tell your computer to ignore it. And moving it to server side would cost them too much money in processing power.

    That’s why they want everyone to adopt their DRM, so they don’t have to worry about it.

    • @[email protected]
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      432 years ago

      This logic is so flawed lol. It’s also completely trivial for them to detect when their anti-adblock script has been blocked. If it gets blocked, then they can just stop serving you videos.

      There are websites that already do this; it’s not theoretical. The website just doesn’t work if it detects an adblocker.

      • @[email protected]
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        252 years ago

        Whether or not it’s trivial to detect depends on the method used to block it. It already is an arms race, and said race will continue.

      • Sippy Cup
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        192 years ago

        Ok but do they know we know they know we know they know?!

        • Draconic NEO
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          82 years ago

          Didn’t Spotify do this a while back, they made threats of account bans as well. In the end it was bypassed and you can still use Adblock in the browser or adfree clients on desktop (or just block ads across device with Adguard or Portmaster), though honestly Spotify kind of sucks in my opinion (usually doesn’t have the music I want and has UI unresponsiveness).

      • AphoticDev
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        02 years ago

        OK, show us an example. I’ve never run across a website that adblockers just didn’t work on, but maybe you know of one. Give us an example, and we’ll see if we can bypass that. Then we’ll know which of us understands how Javascript works, and which doesn’t.