Submitted 11 months ago by L4s@lemmy.world [bot] to technology@lemmy.world
https://www.engadget.com/inside-the-arms-race-between-youtube-and-ad-blockers-140031824.html?src=rss
Inside the ‘arms race’ between YouTube and ad blockers / Against all odds, open source hackers keep outfoxing one of the wealthiest companies.::YouTube’s dramatic content gatekeeping decisions of late have a long history behind them, and there’s an equally long history of these defenses being bypassed.
as soon as they start doing some sort of client verification it’s over for ad blockers
They can’t afford to do anything that would lose them a large slice of viewers. Same reason websites still support IE.
It’s funny you mention that since YouTube led the web in dropping support for IE 6: blog.chriszacharias.com/a-conspiracy-to-kill-ie6
That kind of thing isn’t quite in their DNA anymore, but you never know.
they would mostly be losing the ad blocking viewers though, right?
As it is over for YT, probably.
peanutbutter_gas@lemm.ee 11 months ago
I’m on Linux and use Firefox with ghostery and AdBlock extensions. I’ve got hit with the “must watch ads to play video” thing on YouTube, but just end up activating a user agent extension and set it to report that I’m “running chrome on windows 10”. Voila. I can magically watch YouTube videos without ads again.