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Yes. uBlock does not works any more
It's still working for me. Maybe because I'm also using uMatrix?
Read this thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/youtube/comments/18c9lf0/ublock_jus...
Show HN: I build browser extension that skips any type of ad(Not an ad blocker)
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Re: Show HN: I build browser extension that skips any type of ad(Not an ad blocker)
#12Pretty 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.
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.
Re: Show HN: I build browser extension that skips any type of ad(Not an ad blocker)
#13Pretty 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.
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.
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
Re: Show HN: I build browser extension that skips any type of ad(Not an ad blocker)
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#15Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's still working for me. Maybe because I'm also using uMatrix?
Read this thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/youtube/comments/18c9lf0/ublock_jus...
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.
Re: Show HN: I build browser extension that skips any type of ad(Not an ad blocker)
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#17Pretty 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.
I see some potential for an LLM to unfuck the dom - ultimately there’s going to be patterns
Re: Show HN: I build browser extension that skips any type of ad(Not an ad blocker)
#18that looks great
Re: Show HN: I build browser extension that skips any type of ad(Not an ad blocker)
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As far as I can tell YouTube has made an effort to detect uBlock, and show full ads.
Yes. uBlock does not works any more
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.
Re: Show HN: I build browser extension that skips any type of ad(Not an ad blocker)
#20Pretty 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.
I see some potential for an LLM to unfuck the dom - ultimately there’s going to be patterns
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.