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Does NewPipe count as an adblocker? Not yet but I fear its days are numbered.
Newpipe is accessing the videos straight from the backend. There is no chance to splice any ads into, unless youtube were to modify the source material, and that's highly inconvenient. And then we'd just use sponsorblock anyway.
They tried to change the code to access the raw video material many times over, but unless they encrypt it and enforce decryption via keys uniquely embedded in the official youtube app while somehow finding a way to prevent a disassembly to use their keys in unofficial apps, I don't see that happening.
They don't need to splice ads in, they could just render NewPipe inoperable. I'm sure it would be fairly trivial to detect which page loads are from NewPipe.
Not trivial at all, else they'd have done that already instead of playing cat & mouse. How would they differentiate whether it's the official app, some mobile browser, or newpipe? Changing the user agent or cloning a fingerprint from a browser is the trivial thing here.
Well if they're detecting active ad blockers then presumably they're running some client side js to decode the url if certain conditions are met.
I don't think think they've been playing cat & mouse with newpipe, they just break it by accident.
Have you heard of shape from f5 or similar services?
Nope, what's that?
NewPipe+=1;