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I could do without js.
As the "cookie consent" debacle showed us, websites won't stop using JS, they'll just bombard you with consent dialogs until you click the button that makes them go away fastest, which is likely the one that involves consenting to run their JS.
Are people actually getting blocked? I saw the adblock-block popup once, and after flushing the cache and updating filters of my adblocker I haven't had any issues using yt since. Am I just in a lucky A/B group or is the detection and blockage actually that toothless?
Maybe you didn't try to play videos when they didn't update their fix yet.
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I read somewhere Youtube used to send a response like {..., ads: [1, 2, 3]}. uBlock would see this response and turn it into {..., ads: []} and load the page accordingly. I guess now, Youtube expects a response back, and occasionally, the request/response is faked. So, when uBlock adjusts the request/response and says "This user watched the ads", Youtube knows the request/response was fake and there were no ads to be…
Looking at the filters that uBlock is using, it still seems to be some sort of regex on the xhr request/response body [1]. Why can't youtube trivially defeat this by encrypting everything? It seems like trying to go about the cat-mouse game in this fashion in a losing battle, because all google needs to do is just change up the names a bit each day. [1] https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uAssets/commit/fb33bb3c1fa99...
That's exactly what they are doing, well I don't know about only "change up the names" but they update the script multiple times per day and uBlock Origin devs are trying to catch up.