Comment on youtube getting more agressive

• Eezyville@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I find it funny that a company as big as Google is loosing to little ol uBlock

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  • Goodie@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    It’s often far easier to attack than defend.

    Google has to find and block every way, ublock just has to make a new way to bypass the blocks.

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    • glorious_albus@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Classic mantra of cybersecurity. “We’ve up be right every time, they’ve to be right only once.”

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      • SARGEx117@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        See also: Margaret Thatcher v IRA

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  • Cornelius_Wangenheim@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    They’re working on a final solution to the ad blocker problem. If they’re successful in pushing their Web Environment Integrity API, there’s nothing Firefox or ublock will be able to do.

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    • Vendul@feddit.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      EU as the final boss battle

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    • Kodemystic@lemmy.kodemystic.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      What about pipe like solutions hostux etc? How do they work? Is it through API? Can Google block it like reddit did theirs? Also if google is so concerned about add blockers why do they allow those extensions in their Chrome store?

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      • TauZero@mander.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Piped/invidious work by scrapping the video chunks directly from google and proxying them through volunteer servers. They will stop working as soon as google gets around to locking down the APIs that they are abusing, or blocks their server IPs.

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  • NeoNachtwaechter@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I’m not having any fun. How dare they! With all the evil virus attacks nowadays and most of them starting through online ads, using an adblocker is a matter of security. And it is my decision, not theirs. None of their business.

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  • Johanno@feddit.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Especially funny since blocking ublock is illegal in the EU

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• charonn0@startrek.website ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Some arms races aren’t what they appear to be: blog.codinghorror.com/revisiting-the-black-sunday…

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  • Goodie@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I might read the article later, but your thesis is right.

    This isn’t a arms race, it’s also convenience race.

    Is it more convenient for me to turn off ublock, or go through ublocks menus and update its filters? Do I dislike ads that much? Maybe I do, maybe I don’t. But some people will turn off their adblock of choice, even if it technically still works if you update it. Their conversion rate of viewer to ad consumer will (probably) go up.

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    • charonn0@startrek.website ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      It’s worth the read. I really only posted it because you have to respect the technical prowess involved. Also it’s kind of funny.

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