News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on Show HN: YouTube banned adblockers so I built an extension to skip their ads. Parent comment

Re:Show HN: YouTube banned adblockers so I built an extensio... by PH95VuimJjqBqy on Sunday November 19, 2023 @05:45PM (#38339295)
odd you make that claim considering my adblock successfully removes ads from youtube's service.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Show HN: YouTube banned adblockers so I built an extensio... by acdha on Sunday November 19, 2023 @07:41PM (#38340533)
Yes, for now. It does nothing to prevent Google from seeing what you do on their servers of linking that to what you do elsewhere, and your activity tells anyone who makes videos that the place their stuff will be watched is YouTube.
[ Parent | on HN ]