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Inside the 'arms race' between YouTube and ad blockers / Against all odds, open source hackers keep outfoxing one of the wealthiest companies. (www.engadget.com)

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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.

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[-] dannym@lemmy.escapebigtech.info 28 points 7 months ago

Against all odds, open source hackers keep outfoxing one of the wealthiest companies.

sigh developers will ALWAYS be able to outsmart companies stealing from others.

[-] zalgotext@sh.itjust.works 18 points 7 months ago

I was gonna say, the Internet wouldn't be what it is today without those so-called open source hackers. They're the giants that Google and all the rest are standing on the shoulders of.

[-] zbyte64@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 7 months ago

We're going to relearn this lesson with LLMs. Open source is a maximalist approach to productivity.

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