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YouTube is expanding its ad-blocking powers — closes loopholes that allowed some users to bypass restrictions

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Submitted ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨cm0002@lemmy.world⁩ to ⁨technology@lemmy.zip⁩

https://www.tomshardware.com/software/youtube-is-expanding-its-ad-blocking-powers-closes-loopholes-that-allowed-some-users-to-bypass-restrictions

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  • RedSnt@feddit.dk ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Eh, it only lasted for a few hours, then I updated the ublock origin filters and things were back to normal. In the meanwhile I just streamed youtube videos via a media player that had builtin yt-dlp (smplayer) support.
    It’ll always be a game of cat and mouse.

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    • adarza@lemmy.ca ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      yt-dlp

      it or a front-end to it is always #2 on the list of applications to install on my own new os installs–right behind firefox.

      i don’t use yt much, but it’s sure nice to have. i can just drag over or copy/paste urls or video id right from a serp and never have to give google a even single page view.

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  • cristian64@reddthat.com ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I will not watch ads. That’s the first, unbreakable premise. If the service does not provide videos, I leave the service.

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  • barnaclebutt@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Thanks YouTube for the evolutionary arms race with ad blockers making a truly amazing ad blocker. I hope this is used as evidence for your monopoly with 90% of the market for online advertising. Time to standard oil Alphabet.

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  • aberrate_junior_beatnik@midwest.social ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Huh. I got a couple of popups the other day. A quick refresh fixed it though. In my experience, YT has been miserably failing its war on adblockers. I’ve yet to disable mine to watch a video.

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  • stoy@lemmy.zip ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Once I get my NAS setup this year, I’ll start actively downloading and backing up the videos I like from yt.

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