Comment on YouTube adds new hurdles for ad blockers, and there's currently no way around it
Scrollone@feddit.it 6 days agoYes, I wonder why they hadn’t done it yet, except for paid movies.
Comment on YouTube adds new hurdles for ad blockers, and there's currently no way around it
Scrollone@feddit.it 6 days agoYes, I wonder why they hadn’t done it yet, except for paid movies.
rumba@lemmy.zip 6 days ago
Yeah, they probably already have the tooling in place. Maybe the power (heat + work) cost to encode a Mr. Beast video hurts the profit too much.
Maybe they’re afraid of putting widevine at the working end of the likes of ublock origin and brave. iIIRC some of the WV keys are in the wild, they just keep em close to the action not to make them rotate them out.