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[–] ReginaPhalange@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Question. Wouldn't the catch-all solution for YT is to pair the AJAX calls for the video with a "view video key", and that key to be found out after running a deeply obviouscated javascript served with the html of the "view video" page?

They could even bundle some of the key-building-js with the ad being served.

At some point in order to "block the ad" , the ad blocker would have to run or analyze tons of JS code , making the ordeal to difficult to compute.

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[–] m3t00@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

not blocking ads, scripts. ctrl-shift-c

[–] Smacks@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (5 children)

Vanilla Brave blocks ads and doesn't show the blocker. Ublock & Better YouTube will cause it to trigger. Tampermonkey script prevents the blocker from appearing after disabling/enabling Ublock for a video or two.

Fuck YouTube and Google. They make enough money selling my data.

Edit: Okay I get it guys, Brave bad

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[–] desdo88@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

or at least they try to :P

[–] Albus@lemmings.world 3 points 1 year ago (4 children)
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