Comment on YouTube’s ad blocker crackdown now includes third-party apps

treefrog@lemm.ee ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• Gormadt@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  For now

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  • Chee_Koala@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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  • metaStatic@kbin.social ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    exactly, it would be trivial to have a whitelist server side and now only ad friendly apps can access the videos. they only still work because it's worth keeping those viewers in the system for the time being.

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    • mp3@lemmy.ca ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Technically NewPipe simply parses the website and is seen as a web browser from YouTube’s point of view.

      That how they bypass the API’s TOS, they don’t use it.

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    • Feyd@programming.dev ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Trivial? What information does this whitelist hold that can’t be spoofed? It’s not like apps have to tell the truth about what they are.

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      • wreckedcarzz@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        People do that? Just have their code go on the internet and tell lies?! This is a Christian internet!

        (yes it’s /s)

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      • passepartout@feddit.de ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        This is what current implementations like Revanced do. The endgame will be fullblown DRM. Until then, it will be a cat and mouse game.

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    • eluvinar@szmer.info ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      exactly, it would be trivial to have a whitelist server side and now only ad friendly apps can access the videos. they only still work because it’s worth keeping those viewers in the system for the time being.

      It’s not trivial to make sure over the network on a device you don’t control that you’re talking with an app you think you are talking with. Just look how multiplayer games fail to combat cheaters and resort to kernel anticheats, and then still fail to assure the players are actually using the legit application. It’s actually pretty much impossible in any open ecosystem, maybe possible on something like chromecast where you get to control almost anything (as long as someone doesn’t hack it to run custom firmware, like they do with every console ever).

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• huginn@feddit.it ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Same with revanced right now.

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  • can@sh.itjust.works ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    If they ever manage to kill it I’ll simply quit YouTube and be better for it.

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    • huginn@feddit.it ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I’ll be very sad to quit it but I will too.

      I can’t live without sponsorblock

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      • can@sh.itjust.works ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        It would pain me to scrub through a sponsor without being to submit it to the database.

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