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Re:YouTube now shows "An error has occurred" while ads running by greenisland on Friday March 11, 2016 @09:21PM (#11271002)
What about the notion of something like some of us did with Flash content? I symlinked .adobe and .macromedia to /dev/null and was able to watch Flash content without the LSOs/SuperCookies being downloaded to my drive -- they were written to the bit bucket.

Does anyone think it's possible to write a Perl/Python/Bash program to basically achieve the same thing? To "convince" the site the ads are coming down but they never get seen? This could be browser independent/act as a sort of proxy. I realize Privoxy does something like this, but gets detected.

Thoughts?

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Re:YouTube now shows "An error has occurred" while ads running by Pharaoh2 on Friday March 11, 2016 @09:41PM (#11271068)
uBlock is working on creating neutered version of ad/tracking scripts so that the js think that they are loaded fine and are working but they don't do anything. They are called surrogate script and noscript already uses them.

https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/blob/master/assets/ublock/...

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