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Re:Chrome is deploying HTTP/3 and IETF QUIC by onion2k on Wednesday October 07, 2020 @06:01PM (#24713276)
there is a good chance that the world will see unblockable advertisements in our near future

I don't think we'll ever have unblockable adverts. It would give users a huge incentive to change browser. Google get a great deal of value from people using Chrome and I don't see them giving that up just to serve ads to people that want to block them.

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Re:Chrome is deploying HTTP/3 and IETF QUIC by Penguinx628 on Thursday October 08, 2020 @04:56AM (#24717247)
At this current date 10/08/2020 from what I see nobody is able to block youtube ads on a smart tv or through the youtube app on a non-rooted phone. You can set up a pihole or dns ad blocker but this will not block any of the ads due to sneaky use of dynamic video ID to serve ads.

More information here: https://discourse.pi-hole.net/t/how-do-i-block-ads-on-youtub...

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Re:Chrome is deploying HTTP/3 and IETF QUIC by JamesSwift on Thursday October 08, 2020 @09:29AM (#24718914)
Unblockable ads have always been and will always be possible. The host site just needs to resolve and inject the ad content on their side of the wire. For video they just need to interleave the ad content into the video stream. Good luck fighting that.
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