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Inside the 'arms race' between YouTube and ad blockers / Against all odds, open source hackers keep outfoxing one of the wealthiest companies. (www.engadget.com)

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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.

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[–] nutsack@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago (7 children)

as soon as they start doing some sort of client verification it's over for ad blockers

[–] sparr@lemmy.world 6 points 9 months ago (5 children)

They can't afford to do anything that would lose them a large slice of viewers. Same reason websites still support IE.

[–] singron@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago

It's funny you mention that since YouTube led the web in dropping support for IE 6: https://blog.chriszacharias.com/a-conspiracy-to-kill-ie6

That kind of thing isn't quite in their DNA anymore, but you never know.

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