You can bypass YouTube ads by adding a dot after the domain

Re:You can bypass YouTube ads by adding a dot after the domain by recursive on Wednesday June 10, 2020 @05:37PM (#23482443)

I think ad-blockers are bad for the web. I have nothing against people running them, but I don't choose to. It incentivizes an arms-race between clients and servers to control the content that gets displayed. The end game of this race is bad for everyone. That's my reason.

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Re:You can bypass YouTube ads by adding a dot after the domain by Nextgrid on Wednesday June 10, 2020 @07:44PM (#23483487)

The end game of the race has already been reached and this is why the web without an ad-blocker is so hostile so I'm not sure what value there is in doing this.

In both cases (both now without an ad-blocker, and in a hypothetical future where ad-blockers are impossible due to DRM) the experience is terrible.

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Re:You can bypass YouTube ads by adding a dot after the domain by recursive on Wednesday June 10, 2020 @07:51PM (#23483544)

"The end game of the race has already been reached."

I still think there's a lot farther it could still go. The fact that ads can mostly be blocked by using domain filters suggests that the "bad guys" aren't really trying yet.

I prefer the internet of today to one where all content is DRM locked.

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Re:You can bypass YouTube ads by adding a dot after the domain by Avicebron on Wednesday June 10, 2020 @10:14PM (#23484576)

I would like to think that when that day is reached, I'm building my own web and I have an open invite anyone who wants to join...

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Re:You can bypass YouTube ads by adding a dot after the domain by recursive on Thursday June 11, 2020 @12:07PM (#23490296)

I'll join you, but I still have hope for this one. So I'll keep avoiding ad blockers.

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