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.

  • Corgana
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    210 months ago

    How do those extensions that skip download countdown timers work then?

    • @[email protected]
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      410 months ago

      Those are usually handled by JavaScript being run on the client side, I think, so it just speeds that up

      • Corgana
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        10 months ago

        Sure but my point was if there’s a practical way to do what the guy above me was proposing, then I would assume those sketchy ass sites would employ the same tactics. Not a programmer though.