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Youtube’s Anti-adblock and uBlock Origin (andadinosaur.com)
submitted 11 months ago by AnActOfCreation@programming.dev to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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Really interesting read about the history of YouTube adblocking, how the new detection works, how uBO is responding, and how not to block the new popups.

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[–] dantheclamman@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago

Most of the streaming sites are serving ads from the same subdomain these days. I think Paramount might still be separate? But causes issues when you try to log in as well, so have to pause Pihole to log in. Then ads are (sometimes) blocked :)