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mesamunefire@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 8 months ago

YouTube has found a new way to load ads | AdGuard Blog

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mesamunefire@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 8 months ago
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YouTube has found a new way to bypass ad blockers by integrating ads directly into video content via "server-side ad insertion," complicating the detection and blocking of ads. How will ad blockers respond?
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    Wouldn’t yt-dlp be forced to download the server-side ads, too?

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      There is software for commercial detection and removal from static MP4. That’s not a hard problem to solve.

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      hence the until it stops working, but even then it will likely get worked around for the most part.

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