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Does uBlock Origin (uBO) currently bypass YouTube's adblock detection? (drhyperion451.github.io)
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[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Or they wanted to get ahead of it before people started selling premade PiHole boxes on Amazon

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I think it's more because it's a very easy step if it's the same company serving both the content and the ads. Just serve both through the same domains and you can't use DNS to block one without blocking the other.