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YouTube's next move might make it virtually impossible to block ads (www.androidpolice.com)
submitted 5 months ago by boem to c/technology
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[โ€“] Tyfud 12 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, there's ways around this. It's just that most of the ublock origin blocking specific code, isn't reusable here and the team will need to start over to deal with this new tactic/approach from Google.

The cure might eventually be worse than the disease though. If not now, or tomorrow, then the next day.

[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

I'll let the ublock team carve demonic sigils into me and sacrifice my grandma if that's what it escalates to, I'd sooner lose YouTube entirely than sit through those ads