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.

  • CosmicTurtle@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    Ah I think we have a different definition of “baked in”.

    What I mean is that the video does not change urls or sources when playing the ad and the video. So it looks like an unbroken video feed but on the back end, YouTube added the video between the designated time frames.

    I get what you mean that if ads never change and are forever in the video file then sponsorblock will continue to work. But I don’t think this is what YouTube will do.

    • Laticauda@lemmy.ca
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      11 months ago

      If they make it in any way removable no matter which end its on then other people will be able to figure out how to remove it too.