YouTube Experimenting with Anti-AdBlock

https://www.tomsguide.com/news/youtube-is-going-to-stop-you-using-ad-blockers-heres-how

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8 Comments

Butter_My_Buttcheeks@lemmy.fmhy.ml · 11 pts · 3y

Fuck YT premium

Thrawn@lemmy.fmhy.ml · 6 pts · 3y (1 reply)

Wonder how/if this effects indirect access to videos like NewPipe.

goddamnpipes@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 3y

I've heard in another post on this topic that NewPipe scrapes the videos from YouTube, acting like a normal user, and presents you with the videos without ads. Supposedly, YouTube would find it very hard to block NewPipe's method as a result.

I use ReVanced, so I'm not so sure how safe I am. May have to move to NewPipe if we end up affected by this.

ThetaDev@lemmy.fmhy.ml · 5 pts · 3y

Amazing guide to recommend YT Premium when people came up with an adblock filter for this after a few days.

shani77@lemmy.fmhy.ml · 5 pts · 3y

You'd think Google, the ad company, would have thought ahead enough decades ago to ensure adblockers weren't necessary. Too late now though.

randomguy2323@lemmy.fmhy.ml · 4 pts · 3y (1 reply)

Where are we moving then? Peertube?

podnyatsya@lemmy.fmhy.ml · 3 pts · 3y

Well, Odysee isn't in the Fediverse...

DekkerNSFW@lemmy.fmhy.ml · 3 pts · 3y

Man, it'd be sweet if this gave PeerTube a boost, like Twitter did for Mastodon and Reddit did for Lemmy.