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I hate ads
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this post was submitted on 14 Jun 2024
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It's going to only get worse and YouTube is experimenting with server side ads that can't be blocked because they are directly injected into the videos from the server side. As in put in as part of the video and the timing will be random. There's pretty much no way to counter it. If you tried to use a downloader program the video would probably download with the ads in it.
So basically, if there's anything on YouTube you have saved to a playlist and want to watch in the future without ads.... Download it now.
Look up YouTube dlp for PC downloading.
https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp?tab=readme-ov-file#installation
If you have android there is the app Newpipe
https://newpipe.net/
+1 yt-dlp is workhorse
The threat of server-side ads, as you mentioned, is concerning. I haven't looked into the proposed implementations, but it seems like the nature of HLS still leaves the door open for workarounds. It seems like yt encoding chunks on the fly with both content and ads so you wouldn't be able to filter chunks would be too much of a burden, and doing so statically would be too restrictive.
... Or maybe they'll just abandon open standards and they'll just do widevine 2.0 🤮
That sucks to hear. The day I can't block ads on youtube will be the day I stop using it. It is just not worth the psychological damage of having that garbage blasted at me.
It definitely wouldn't be impossible to counter, but it would be difficult. I don't really doubt that effective ad-blocking to server-side injections would appear sooner or later.
From what I understand they did this on some other platform year ago and still there no real work around. Twitch maybe? Idk. The developer of sponsor block straight up said there is nothing they can do about them and the various anti-ad communities on Reddit are pretty much confirming that there's no way to block them. They MAY figure something out eventually but this is going to really mess things up for a while.