Leo@lemmy.linuxuserspace.showM to Linux and Tech News@lemmy.linuxuserspace.showEnglish · 6 months agoYouTube’s ad blocker crackdown now includes third-party appswww.theverge.comexternal-linkmessage-square5fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10cross-posted to: piracy@lemmit.onlinedegoogle@lemmy.mltechnology@lemmy.ziptechnology@lemmy.world
arrow-up11arrow-down1external-linkYouTube’s ad blocker crackdown now includes third-party appswww.theverge.comLeo@lemmy.linuxuserspace.showM to Linux and Tech News@lemmy.linuxuserspace.showEnglish · 6 months agomessage-square5fedilinkcross-posted to: piracy@lemmit.onlinedegoogle@lemmy.mltechnology@lemmy.ziptechnology@lemmy.world
minus-squareCameronDev@programming.devlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·6 months agoThat wont necessarily save it, my impression was that google was going to attempt to heuristically detect other yt interfaces and mess with them. I.e: “You keep downloading video data, but havent hit our ad endpoint at all, gtfo”
minus-squareMikufan@ani.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·6 months agoRevanced should be pretty safe since its basically a mod and therefore should contain the original Google API But of they do that they get problems with eu, they already got into trouble for that “your adblocker is not allowed” stuff they did…
That wont necessarily save it, my impression was that google was going to attempt to heuristically detect other yt interfaces and mess with them. I.e: “You keep downloading video data, but havent hit our ad endpoint at all, gtfo”
Revanced should be pretty safe since its basically a mod and therefore should contain the original Google API
But of they do that they get problems with eu, they already got into trouble for that “your adblocker is not allowed” stuff they did…