Comment on YouTube tests server-side ads to make your coveted blocker obsolete
PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca 3 months agoBut isn’t that because the ads aren’t part of the video? If players can tell when it’s an advert, presumably ad blockers could too.
(Although presumably they have to tell the player to disable video scrubbing)
thatsTheCatch@lemmy.nz 3 months ago
I’m not entirely sure how ad blockers work, but my understanding was they prevent things loading from certain URLs. If the ads are embedded into the video, then there’s no ad-specific URL to block