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YouTube just started a new round of ad blocker bans (9to5google.com)
7 points by miles 3 months ago | hide | past | favorite | 3 comments


What are the challenges in building an ad blocker that Youtube can't detect?


Getting popular without YT finding out about it ;)


Apologies, technical challenges. Assume I consume the video stream. How will you know what I do and don't display or store to disk? Of course, if they're going to wrap every video in DRM and lock down the player, that is probably going to require a lot more effort to defeat.




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