Does uBlock Origin (uBO) currently bypass YouTube's adblock detection?

Re:Does uBlock Origin (uBO) currently bypass YouTube's adblo... by lxgr on Wednesday December 06, 2023 @08:16AM (#38543422)

There’s no need at all to rely on Chrome: If Google wanted to, they could enable DRM for all videos on Youtube today. Almost every desktop and mobile browser supports it.

They’d lose a couple of legacy client apps, but much less traffic than they would if they were to make it Chrome-only.

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Re:Does uBlock Origin (uBO) currently bypass YouTube's adblo... by octacat on Wednesday December 06, 2023 @10:45AM (#38545367)

And this is what would happen. The only reason why it is not happening - many users would go and watch tiktok instead or FB videos would get a chance.

I don't see the reason to support the company, which dreams to make internet worse.

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Re:Does uBlock Origin (uBO) currently bypass YouTube's adblo... by lxgr on Wednesday December 06, 2023 @10:53AM (#38545498)

They could always exempt Youtube Shorts (which are competing with TikTok/Instagram reels etc.) from DRM and only apply it to longer-form content. Shorts don't get ads anyway in my experience (but I almost never use them).

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Re:Does uBlock Origin (uBO) currently bypass YouTube's adblo... by anticensor on Friday December 08, 2023 @01:29AM (#38566016)

shorts and CC licensed videos

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