YouTube is running an experiment asking some users to disable their ad blockers or pay for a premium subscription, or they will not be allowed to watch videos.
Some websites load the ads before the page itself, which seems to get around many adblockers. Or at least I’ve heard some folks say that. Can’t say for certain, though my adblocker doesn’t seem to work at all on some sites, and that could be why.
Youtube could bake the ads into the video stream to make them unskippable. This still wouldn’t stop frontend technologies like Invidious from scraping.
I wonder how? Unless ad-blocker extensions are currently leaking some piece of info indicating to the website that we’re using them?
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Some websites load the ads before the page itself, which seems to get around many adblockers. Or at least I’ve heard some folks say that. Can’t say for certain, though my adblocker doesn’t seem to work at all on some sites, and that could be why.
Youtube could bake the ads into the video stream to make them unskippable. This still wouldn’t stop frontend technologies like Invidious from scraping.