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It’s an impasse not a cat-and-mouse game. Sure you have the right to modify any code that Google’s server serves to your machine, but if Google’s server decides
by henriquez 3y ago
It’s an impasse not a cat-and-mouse game. Sure you have the right to modify any code that Google’s server serves to your machine, but if Google’s server decides to not serve you videos, for any reason, then that’s where your game ends.
It’s likely that there are server side checks for a whole tangled mess of client cookies and XHR pings across a hundred different subdomains, and you’re not going to trick them into thinking you’re watching ads when you aren’t.
- willcipriano 3y ago> and you’re not going to trick them into thinking you’re watching ads when you aren’t. Trivial. https://adnauseam.io/ https://adnauseam.io/
- genocidicbunny 3y agoNo, it is a cat-and-mouse game, because I could start doing things like detecting the ad frames and blacking them out in the compositor. What if my browser had a plugin that did that? Think SponsorBlock that talks with the browser's rendering engine. As far as youtube could tell (unless they record my screen and process it to detect that I'm viewing an ad...but that would be a bridge too far for a lot of people I think) the ad is playing, but I'm not viewing. Audio can get similar processing.
- henriquez 3y agoOh, true. Then you’re not really blocking ads, you’re sending them to the shadow realm!