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I use proxy to remove youtube ads.

• djfobbz 4y ago
  Can you shine some more light on how exactly you do this? Would love to try it out myself!
  • vbezhenar 4y ago
    Here's code: https://pastebin.com/LEzbz4NN https://pastebin.com/LEzbz4NN Basically youtube sends ads data in a window.ytInitialPlayerResponse variable. My extension loads before and intercepts this variable with proxy to prevent setting of window.ytInitialPlayerResponse.adPlacements field. When I was writing this code, I looked into ublock origin filters, so this idea or may be even code could have been borrowed there, I don't really remember. I also override JSON.parse and Response.json functions, because youtube can also send ad data with AJAX. One of those might be unnecessary, I'm not really sure.
    • djfobbz 4y ago
      Verified...this is very nifty indeed! Thank you for sharing, now I can finally remove my AdBlock extension as it kept polluting my dev console with browser-polyfill errors ;)