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YouTube's next move might make it virtually impossible to block ads (www.androidpolice.com)
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[โ€“] andrewth09@lemmy.world 31 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

If the YouTube interface restricts you skipping during certain parts of the video, an ad blocker can detect that and skip over it anyway. Otherwise, I myself will just skip over the ad.

[โ€“] CileTheSane@lemmy.ca 9 points 5 months ago

Or at the very least detect when you can't skip and mute the tab and put a black box over top of the video.