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Show HN: I build browser extension that skips any type of ad(Not an ad blocker)

30 points by dkraj 2y ago

AdBlitz: It automatically skips the skippable ads and accelerates(16x) non skippable ones, enusring there is no interruption. It can skips multiple ads, yt surveys without affecting your youtube account as well as no effect on creator's economy No setting up things. Lightweight. Just download and enjoy. Most importantly it is open source.

dkraj 2y ago
Here's the github repo: https://github.com/dikshantrajput/adBlitz https://github.com/dikshantrajput/adBlitz
kurtextrem 2y ago
just curious, what's the difference to the other extensions doing this?
- dkraj 2y ago
  Most of them are outdated and not open sourced so can't really update to fix there! As per comments on chrome store
  - Kuinox 2y ago
    Ublock is open source and still works.
Kuinox 2y ago
Why not just using ublock ?
- MichaelMug 2y ago
  As far as I can tell YouTube has made an effort to detect uBlock, and show full ads.
  - dkraj 2y ago
    Yes. uBlock does not works any more
    - m-localhost 2y ago
      It's still working for me. Maybe because I'm also using uMatrix?
      - dkraj 2y ago
        Read this thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/youtube/comments/18c9lf0/ublock_just_stopped_working_again/ https://www.reddit.com/r/youtube/comments/18c9lf0/ublock_jus...
        Kuinox 2y ago
        This is a 5 months old threads. ublock have been able to bypass youtube scripts for a while. If it doesn't work for you, it's probably because it's not up to date or you have an extension that disrupt ublock.
    - aodonnell2536 2y ago
      While the YouTube/uBlock war of attrition was going on, I had to use the newest hotfix every couple of days. Have had no problem with uBlock for around 2+ months now.
    - Saris 2y ago
      It has been working for me, even through all the stuff months ago. I wonder why some people seem to be affected constantly and some don't at all.
    - PufPufPuf 2y ago
      Not true. uBlock Origin works just fine. I actually never had problems with it not working, they seem to update it pretty fast. I'm using Firefox, maybe that also has something to do with it.
  - 2y ago
mohamedmansour 2y ago
Pretty lean extension, you basically set the playback rate of an Ad to 16 and automatically click on skip ad when it appears. If this becomes popular, Google can copy Facebook anti blocker methods and just randomize the classnames and Dom depth of nodes for the button. And they could honey pot it with hidden elements or image buttons.
- y42 2y ago
  can't we adapt this to other forms of ads, meaning changing visuals to a height x width of 1x1? This will not save bandwidth, but 'their' algos still assume we're loading and displaying ads.
  - dkraj 2y ago
    Yes we can just hide any type of ads with this strategy keeping our account also safe not like how accounts got banned using uBlock
- dkraj 2y ago
  Yes you are right they can do this but it's not that easy to do and also these big tech giants can't just simply update the code like we can. Everything goes through a process which takes ample amount of time and If they does it also, I will come out with some more solution.
- gmerc 2y ago
  I see some potential for an LLM to unfuck the dom - ultimately there’s going to be patterns
  - skulk 2y ago
    feeding an entire DOM tree into an LLM and waiting for the response sounds like a terrible thing to include in a latency-sensitive render pipeline.
    - gmerc 2y ago
mpoweredo 2y ago
that looks great

30 points by dkraj 2y ago

dkraj 2y ago

Here's the github repo: https://github.com/dikshantrajput/adBlitz https://github.com/dikshantrajput/adBlitz

kurtextrem 2y ago

just curious, what's the difference to the other extensions doing this?

dkraj 2y ago
Most of them are outdated and not open sourced so can't really update to fix there! As per comments on chrome store
- Kuinox 2y ago
  Ublock is open source and still works.

Kuinox 2y ago

Why not just using ublock ?

MichaelMug 2y ago
As far as I can tell YouTube has made an effort to detect uBlock, and show full ads.
- dkraj 2y ago
  Yes. uBlock does not works any more
  - m-localhost 2y ago
    It's still working for me. Maybe because I'm also using uMatrix?
    - dkraj 2y ago
      Read this thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/youtube/comments/18c9lf0/ublock_just_stopped_working_again/ https://www.reddit.com/r/youtube/comments/18c9lf0/ublock_jus...
      - Kuinox 2y ago
        This is a 5 months old threads. ublock have been able to bypass youtube scripts for a while. If it doesn't work for you, it's probably because it's not up to date or you have an extension that disrupt ublock.
  - aodonnell2536 2y ago
    While the YouTube/uBlock war of attrition was going on, I had to use the newest hotfix every couple of days. Have had no problem with uBlock for around 2+ months now.
  - Saris 2y ago
    It has been working for me, even through all the stuff months ago. I wonder why some people seem to be affected constantly and some don't at all.
  - PufPufPuf 2y ago
    Not true. uBlock Origin works just fine. I actually never had problems with it not working, they seem to update it pretty fast. I'm using Firefox, maybe that also has something to do with it.
- 2y ago

mohamedmansour 2y ago

Pretty lean extension, you basically set the playback rate of an Ad to 16 and automatically click on skip ad when it appears. If this becomes popular, Google can copy Facebook anti blocker methods and just randomize the classnames and Dom depth of nodes for the button. And they could honey pot it with hidden elements or image buttons.

y42 2y ago
can't we adapt this to other forms of ads, meaning changing visuals to a height x width of 1x1? This will not save bandwidth, but 'their' algos still assume we're loading and displaying ads.
- dkraj 2y ago
  Yes we can just hide any type of ads with this strategy keeping our account also safe not like how accounts got banned using uBlock
dkraj 2y ago
Yes you are right they can do this but it's not that easy to do and also these big tech giants can't just simply update the code like we can. Everything goes through a process which takes ample amount of time and If they does it also, I will come out with some more solution.
gmerc 2y ago
I see some potential for an LLM to unfuck the dom - ultimately there’s going to be patterns
- skulk 2y ago
  feeding an entire DOM tree into an LLM and waiting for the response sounds like a terrible thing to include in a latency-sensitive render pipeline.
  - gmerc 2y ago

mpoweredo 2y ago

that looks great