• Mechaguana@programming.dev
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    1 month ago

    The worst part about youtube is that it TRIES TO LIE TO YOU by suggesting that ANY AND I MEAN ANY problem is due to your adblock (its not) it literally puts a little shitty caption that thanks god gets swatted with the fury of a thousand gaping black holes by UBLOCK ORIGIN GET IT DOWNLOAD IT SPREAD ITS SHINING SUN LIKE GLORY

    • ODGreen@lemmy.ca
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      1 month ago

      Youtube put in an ad-blocker-blocker so UBlock Origin made an ad-blocker-blocker-blocker.

      • rumba@lemmy.zip
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        1 month ago

        The escalation is almost to a head. Very soon, they’re going to start encrypting and changing it up often. We’ve seen tests of this knocking people out here and there.

        I wouldn’t be surprised if they eventually do something that changes often enough to make the blockers unreasonable. We’ll end up going back to commercial detection and comskip.

        • Lka1988@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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          1 month ago

          We’ll end up going back to commercial detection and comskip.

          Sponsorblock does this, kinda. It’s crowdsourced.

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            1 month ago

            Sponsorblock is awesome, and it will continue to work well if they keep the commercials in the same spot in every video. If they go through the rest of the full DRM, I can’t imagine they’d leave that alone.