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YouTube tests server-side ads to make your coveted blocker obsolete (www.yahoo.com)

submitted 3 months ago by [email protected] to c/technology

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

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[–] Aetherion 11 points 3 months ago (5 children)

Please do this! YouTube will finally be unusable and Google can finally start to die completely :3

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[–] thefrankring 10 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Rumble and PeerTube

EDIT: I'm already paying YouTube with personal data and privacy.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago

Fuck youtube

[–] Zengen 9 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Let's develop an AI that can detect where ads in videos start and end. And cut them out client side. Anti corporate advertising AI :D

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I'll be the devils advocate: if this lets them stop trying to fucking break all the 3rd party tools, then I'm almost willing to say it's half a win.

I only half use 3rd party tools to block ads, the MORE important half is that the 3rd party apps fucking show me my subscriptions in chronological order and NOTHING FUCKING ELSE.

I'd trade off ads you could skip by hopping forward 30 seconds in a video stream vs. missing things you're actually subscribed to, and having to deal with all the garbage google shovels at you.