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

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CileTheSane@lemmy.ca ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

Anything that causes the video player to behave differently during the ad is a clear marker to ad blockers that “THERE IS AN AD HERE!”

The hardest thing to block would be just making the ad a direct part of the video, which behaves like the rest of the video. This would reduce the effectiveness of ad blockers filtering it out significantly, but then users would be able to skip ads they don’t want to watch and we can’t have that…

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