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YouTube adds new hurdles for ad blockers, and there's currently no way around it
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Raymond Hill is the absolut GOAT
"No way around it" always ends the same After 2 days uBlock just works.
Taking no donations, just maintaining out of pure spite
Love to see it
Spite is a form of currency. lol
spite and hatred are incredibly powerful motivators.
No, you're thinking of Sprite, specifically the bottle caps.
I'm still waiting for them to just to implement Wildvine. It has to happen at some point.
Widevine
yes, that thing :)
Yes, I wonder why they hadn't done it yet, except for paid movies.
Yeah, they probably already have the tooling in place. Maybe the power (heat + work) cost to encode a Mr. Beast video hurts the profit too much.
Maybe they're afraid of putting widevine at the working end of the likes of ublock origin and brave. iIIRC some of the WV keys are in the wild, they just keep em close to the action not to make them rotate them out.