Comment on YouTube’s ad blocker crackdown now includes third-party apps
Cyyy@lemmy.world 5 months agoFreeTibe, newpipe etc. simulate being a browser and extract the video that way…if YouTube would want to add ads for this thirdparty clients they would have to inject them directly into the video feed.
Deeleres@discuss.tchncs.de 5 months ago
With the WebM-Format they use it might be possible. It’s based on Matroska and there is a feature to replace or add chunks with the stream in realtime.