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.

  • @nutsack
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    111 months ago

    as soon as they start doing some sort of client verification it’s over for ad blockers

    • @sparr
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      611 months ago

      They can’t afford to do anything that would lose them a large slice of viewers. Same reason websites still support IE.

      • @nutsack
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        011 months ago

        they would mostly be losing the ad blocking viewers though, right?

        • gian
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          111 months ago

          Yes, but the point their are trying to make is to gain the adblocking users, not lose them. They need more people to watch the ads, not less people to watch YT.

          • @nutsack
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            111 months ago

            i imagine many of them are addicted to youtube and would watch ads

            • gian
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              111 months ago

              Not sure about that, but it would be interesting to have some real number and not the ones from Google or the adblockers

    • gian
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      111 months ago

      As it is over for YT, probably.