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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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[–] nutsack 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

as soon as they start doing some sort of client verification it's over for ad blockers

[–] sparr 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

They can't afford to do anything that would lose them a large slice of viewers. Same reason websites still support IE.

[–] singron 2 points 1 year ago

It's funny you mention that since YouTube led the web in dropping support for IE 6: https://blog.chriszacharias.com/a-conspiracy-to-kill-ie6

That kind of thing isn't quite in their DNA anymore, but you never know.

[–] nutsack 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

they would mostly be losing the ad blocking viewers though, right?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yes, but the point their are trying to make is to gain the adblocking users, not lose them. They need more people to watch the ads, not less people to watch YT.

[–] nutsack 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

i imagine many of them are addicted to youtube and would watch ads

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Not sure about that, but it would be interesting to have some real number and not the ones from Google or the adblockers

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

As it is over for YT, probably.