YouTube is now blocking Ad Blockers – So I just make ads run 16x faster
YouTube is now blocking Ad Blockers – So I just make ads run 16x faster
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YouTube is now blocking Ad Blockers - So I just make ads run 16x faster :)
There is a discussion on Hacker News, but feel free to comment here as well.
This is an arms race YouTube cannot win
They can win by making videos only accessible via account and aggressively banning adblock users. It will hurt it at first but people would rather accept it instead of finding a replacement. I expect this to happen in a few years.
Nothing can beat a VCR with an ad skipper.
And I am not afraid to use it.
They can just embed the ads in the actual video, server side.
Sponsorblock would still work, wouldn't?
You are underestimating companies. Twitch won this race. YouTube can win too.
How did twitch win? Would you not say that YouTube has a larger user base, and therefore a larger target of this sort of cracking?
Twitch has the unique use case of live streaming, which makes the content’s timeliness a factor in the users experience.