Youtube’s Anti-adblock and uBlock Origin - And a Dinosaur
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Recently, YouTube has been ramping up its anti-adblock effort, and I’ve been watching this closely due to personal interest. This blog post is where I write down what I know. Some Background Here’s...

Really interesting read about the history of YouTube adblocking, how the new detection works, how uBO is responding, and how not to block the new popups.

  • nucawysi@lemmy.worldEnglish
    4·
    1 year ago

    does this affect the ip range blockers. I thought about getting one of those, but youtube will probably find a way to cook ads into regular content, but we have AI now…

    • Emerald@lemmy.worldEnglish
      14·
      1 year ago

      YouTube for many years serves ads through the same domain and IP as the actual content.

    • petersr@lemmy.worldEnglish
      5·
      1 year ago

      Like pihole? I recently set it up and it is not blocking YouTube ads (as other commenters have also pointed out).

    • dantheclamman@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      Most of the streaming sites are serving ads from the same subdomain these days. I think Paramount might still be separate? But causes issues when you try to log in as well, so have to pause Pihole to log in. Then ads are (sometimes) blocked :)