Comment on Privacy advocate challenges YouTube's ad blocking detection

lnxtx@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• Redrum714@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  So can the web server your trying to access lol

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  • sir_reginald@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    the adblock detection is happening at the client side with JavaScript code executed on my browser. As the original comment said: my device, my freedom. I’ll be blocking any JavaScript I don’t like and nobody can stop me from doing that.

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  • long_chicken_boat@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    the web server? absolutely!

    the arbitrary code they send to my browser? I must be able to choose what to execute in my device.

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    • Redrum714@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Media hosting is not “arbitrary code” and costs money. Just saying don’t be surprised when a site prevents you from using a service without paying for it in some way.

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      • long_chicken_boat@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        they detect adblock by executing proprietary JavaScript code in my browser, using my CPU cycles. I paid for that CPU and I can choose what code gets executed and what not.

        That JavaScript code is also privacy invasive and I’m not letting a mega corporation recollect information about myself. So yeah, I’ll block whatever I want from my browser. And if that makes Google loose money, they are more than welcomed to look for a business model other than advertising.

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    • surewhynotlem@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Good luck and god speed.

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      • gentooer@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        NoScript makes it fairly easy to pick and choose what scripts to run, although it’d probably not be granular enough for YouTube’s adblockblock.

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    • ink@r.nf ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      and people wonder why everything is entirely moving to subscriptions.

      You are able to choose because they let you. You don’t think they know that? They own their own browser for god sakes. They could turn every adblock ineffective and not care for mouth breathers like you claiming victory by using applications and adblock lists someone else make, who would shit themselves if they stopped being maintained for a few days.

      Don’t make yourself feel like you beat the Big Tech. It’s anything but…

      Enjoy yourself feeling like a h4x0r though.

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      • yuriy@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Do you think it’s the fault of people with ad-blockers that everything is transitioning to subscription services? Or do you think maybe it has something to do with the exponentially larger profit to be made with the subscription model?

        It really looks like you’re just angry at this one person, and you kinda shaped your argument to be the meanest thing possible for them. But it left you looking like a shill for google who can’t decide which fight they wanna have.

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