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you can make the request and hide the result from the user
by blibble 3y ago
you can make the request and hide the result from the user
- tekla 3y agoWhich defeats about 75% of the reason to use the adblocker.
- impeplague 3y agoIn the specific case of YouTube, it does not. The content and ads providers are the same.
- graphe 3y agoI'd say closer to 99.9999% of users who can stream YouTube aren't trying to save data and just want to AdBlock.
- blibble 3y agoif there's no other option it's a still infinitely better than seeing HOT SINGLES IN YOUR AREA or another MANSCAPED ad if it gets to that point I wouldn't mind the adblocker even automatically clicking the ad some percentage of the time, just to punish Google
- fxtentacle 3y agoThat's called AdNauseam.
- blibble 3y agonot quite I don't want to punish everyone, only those attempting to coerce me into disabling the ad-blocker
- pavon 3y agoFor something like YouTube it can probably still be detected by timing. If the browser plays part A of a video, then when it is done immediately requests part B of the video, when there is supposed to be a 2 minute gap to play an ad, that can be detected on the server side. The client could try to get around that by doing things like telling the server it is playing at 2x, and then really playback at 1x, but then the server could send different content (pre-downsampled) depending on the playback rate requested.