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Re:YouTube tests blocking videos unless you disable ad blockers by midoridensha on Wednesday May 10, 2023 @10:00PM (#35896380)
One thing I haven't seen discussed here is: how exactly are they going to remove that option? Are they going to embed the ads into the video stream on-the-fly somehow?
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Re:YouTube tests blocking videos unless you disable ad blockers by crop_rotation on Wednesday May 10, 2023 @10:03PM (#35896409)
One way would be to require logins and then timeout accounts that behave abnormally wrt ads. Given that WASM will be mainstream soon, it will be hard to monkey patch the code to prevent all this.
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Re:YouTube tests blocking videos unless you disable ad blockers by HDThoreaun on Thursday May 11, 2023 @11:03AM (#35903204)
Youtube can tell if an ad is blocked. They can then refuse to serve the video. Instead replacing it with an image that says "please turn off your adblocker" or the like.
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Re:YouTube tests blocking videos unless you disable ad blockers by spacebanana7 on Friday May 12, 2023 @01:41PM (#35919440)
I imagine they’d prevent the page from rendering and display a warning when an Adblocker is detected. Similar to what some publishers currently do.
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