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YouTube's plan backfires, people are installing better ad blockers (www.androidauthority.com)

submitted 10 months ago by ijeff@lemdro.id to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] Blaster_M@lemmy.world 70 points 10 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (4 children)

Meanwhile, Youtube engineers and uBlock Origin volunteers are in a war of attrition, updating both the website (youtube, to block ublock) and uBlock Origin (the ad blocker, to unblock the ublock blocker) multiple times a day every day

[–] grue@lemmy.world 35 points 10 months ago

I feel like uBlock Origin has been coming out ahead more often than not. I haven't had to manually refresh my lists for the last few days.

[–] Chozo@kbin.social 16 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Yep, it's going to be a constant game of cat-and-mouse from now on. Google isn't going to relent on this.

[–] peopleproblems@lemmy.world 21 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Oh, of course not. But uBlock Origin and pihole aren't going anywhere. Hell, they'd probably have to get legislation to slow it down, but good luck fighting that battle. Hollywood's war against piracy is a good comparison.

[–] drbluefall@toast.ooo 14 points 10 months ago (1 children)

something something offer a better service than the pirates

[–] woddy@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago

Exactly. We've come a long way from $6/m netflix. I would rather give up youtube than pay them $10/m. I GLADLY paid $1/m to a twitch adblocker the other day. Ill pay, but not fucking $10/m when I can avoid it with some complications for free.

[–] Draconic_NEO@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago

Not even, they've already tried to make the case of Anti-adblock bypass violating DMCA and it hasn't gone anywhere. Unlike piracy where it can and is claimed as a violation of copyright law.

[–] ThePowerOfGeek@lemmy.world 9 points 10 months ago

Reminds me of the IM wars back in the latter 90s / early 00s. At one point, briefly, AIM and Trillian were pushing updates to negate each other every few hours.