this post was submitted on 25 Jul 2024
699 points (98.5% liked)

Technology

59452 readers
3830 users here now

This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.

Our Rules

  1. Follow the lemmy.world rules.
  2. Only tech related content.
  3. Be excellent to each another!
  4. Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
  5. Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
  6. Politics threads may be removed.
  7. No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
  8. Only approved bots from the list below, to ask if your bot can be added please contact us.
  9. Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed

Approved Bots

founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
L3s
[email protected]
[email protected]
L4s
enu
699
YouTube tests server-side ads to make your coveted blocker obsolete (www.yahoo.com)
submitted 3 months ago by [email protected] to c/technology
381 comments fedilink hide all child comments
 

YouTube has been spotted testing server-side ads, which could pose a problem to ad blockers.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago (2 children)

I'm not so sure. Once they are embedded in the video they become hard to block. Twitch is like this now.

[–] RexWrexWrecks 4 points 3 months ago

And yet there are userscripts you can use to block out twitch ads. I haven't seen one for months now despite not being a subscriber.

[–] nutt_goblin 1 points 3 months ago

I'm holding out some hope, since twitch is live but YouTube is pre-buffered, but they could still block loading past the ad on a timer or a key computed from hashing the decoded frames of the ad, idk