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Inside the 'arms race' between YouTube and ad blockers / Against all odds, open source hackers keep outfoxing one of the wealthiest companies. (www.engadget.com)

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Inside the 'arms race' between YouTube and ad blockers / Against all odds, open source hackers keep outfoxing one of the wealthiest companies.::YouTube's dramatic content gatekeeping decisions of late have a long history behind them, and there's an equally long history of these defenses being bypassed.

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[-] gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 103 points 9 months ago

And I am fucking loving it. With this move, Google has effectively started an arms race between the team they have implementing this Adblock-blocking crap and the vast majority of the technically competent internet users in the world.

Unless the rules of how the internet works fundamentally change, Google is not going to win.

[-] ultra@feddit.ro 65 points 9 months ago

Why do you think they were pushing so hard for WEI? They did try to fundamentally change how the internet works.

[-] dXq9dwg4zt@lemmings.world 17 points 9 months ago

Precisely.

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