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.
Comment on youtube getting more agressive
Eezyville@sh.itjust.works 8 months agoI find it funny that a company as big as Google is loosing to little ol uBlock
Cornelius_Wangenheim@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Vendul@feddit.de 8 months ago
EU as the final boss battle
Kodemystic@lemmy.kodemystic.dev 8 months 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?
TauZero@mander.xyz 8 months 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.
NeoNachtwaechter@lemmy.world 8 months 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.
Johanno@feddit.de 8 months ago
Especially funny since blocking ublock is illegal in the EU
Goodie@lemmy.world 8 months 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.
glorious_albus@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Classic mantra of cybersecurity. “We’ve up be right every time, they’ve to be right only once.”
SARGEx117@lemmy.world 8 months ago
See also: Margaret Thatcher v IRA