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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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[-] Corgana@startrek.website 2 points 1 year ago

How do those extensions that skip download countdown timers work then?

[-] laurelraven@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 1 year ago

Those are usually handled by JavaScript being run on the client side, I think, so it just speeds that up

[-] Corgana@startrek.website 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Sure but my point was if there's a practical way to do what the guy above me was proposing, then I would assume those sketchy ass sites would employ the same tactics. Not a programmer though.

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