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YouTube is now blocking Ad Blockers – So I just make ads run 16x faster (old.reddit.com)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Well, if googles web integrity api becomes reality, every site that makes money from ads will refuse to serve any modified client.

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

I thought they backed out of that a couple weeks ago already

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

For now

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

It doesn't really matter they can't implement it if the other browsers aren't on board.

So they haven't so much backed out as much as they've been forced to give up with the idea because no one else wants to do it. Because why would you, it only benefits YouTube?