Comment on YouTube cracking on ad blockers.

SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• piecat@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Sandbox the ads. Trick them into thinking the playback is finished. If there is a timer that prevents skipping, modify timing calls to shorten the duration. Or execute faster than real-time.

  If there is some kind of timer callback to server, it would even be preferable to have ad “running” invisibly with a progress bar and no ad.

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  • Comment105@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Honestly, I’d tolerate an adless grey timer, you don’t even have to trick it that fine has passed.

    Just open in another tab, wait for skip option, skip (but probably not in a perfectly timed robotic way), then pause. Grey and silent midroll would be annoying but still tolerable.

    People who know programming and how far it can go seem to sometimes trap themselves in very difficult problems that would be great to solve, but undervalue a version without that complicated luxury.

    I’m all for trying to solve it, but a tool that doesn’t is still good. I just don’t want to be aware of what the companies want to make me aware of.

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    • piecat@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Pretty soon there will be captchas that are ads. Or they’ll get around to implementing tech to force you to watch it.

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      • Donkter@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Lol “please type in the following captcha: ‘Toyotathon December to Remember event is right around the corner!’”

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      • Malfeasant@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        ca-times.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/…/75/?ur…

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      • SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        At that point your site is unusable

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  • SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    That is really what I was thinking of

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• AustralianSimon@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  That would be rendering potentially malicious code in the ad.

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  • SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Sandbox them

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• BradleyUffner@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  A good ad blocker would be one that will still load the page as intended

  One could make a strong argument that the creators of the page intended the page to show ads.

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  • Colorcodedresistor@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

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    • drekly@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Hi! I work with google ads every day, it’s my job, and I have a business running ads for other small businesses.

      Guess what, I use an ad blocker!

      If all ads were innocent businesses trying to sell things I’m interested in, and they all had their targeting set up correctly, it’d be great. Unfortunately, all my ads are “you are male and under 60” and that’s as sophisticated as the targeting has been set to, so they’re totally irrelevant, terrible ads.

      Also, my other issue is that some advertisers have really low standards for what you’re allowed to show. Google at least has some standards and is sometimes overzealous with its automated disapprovals, which hopefully makes its platform a little better.

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      • SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        I had to show my wife the current wave of ads that remind me of the ads I saw during the home refinancing boom years ago. I get ads for things like financial advisors and it is a photo of a woman with big breasts. It is like the ads were made by Dennis from Its Always Sunny in Philadelphia.

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  • gian@lemmy.grys.it ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I think he means that a good adblocker should load the page as intended with the ads and then simply discard them before rendering the page.

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