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Youtube’s Anti-adblock and uBlock Origin (andadinosaur.com)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Really interesting read about the history of YouTube adblocking, how the new detection works, how uBO is responding, and how not to block the new popups.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago (3 children)

does this affect the ip range blockers. I thought about getting one of those, but youtube will probably find a way to cook ads into regular content, but we have AI now.....

[–] [email protected] 15 points 10 months ago

YouTube for many years serves ads through the same domain and IP as the actual content.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago

Like pihole? I recently set it up and it is not blocking YouTube ads (as other commenters have also pointed out).

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

Most of the streaming sites are serving ads from the same subdomain these days. I think Paramount might still be separate? But causes issues when you try to log in as well, so have to pause Pihole to log in. Then ads are (sometimes) blocked :)