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YouTube’s ad blocker crackdown now includes third-party apps (www.theverge.com)
submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (2 children)

And yet it still can't figure out how to get past two adblockers at once

It's stupid that it works, but it works

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago

If it's stupid and it works, it's not stupid.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Why would you use two adblockers?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Because so far, not a single YouTube update has let them get past it. Basically, I switched adblockers but forgot to uninstall the old one, then by the time I noticed, I had also noticed that the combination somehow, for some bizarre reason, ends up confusing anti adblockers to the point of not even getting "disable adblocker" messages. It's not something involving their blacklists either because they have the same blacklist (due to the aforementioned replacing one with another then forgetting to uninstall the older one)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

I have only uBlock Origin and no YouTube update has gotten past it (except the first one for a few hours), I never get "disable adblocker" messages either. Also anti adblockers are not blacklist based.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Twice the protection

Double the security

PS: Doesn't apply to condoms.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Twice the chances of being detected

Double the attack surface

Half the performance

It really does not work like that. If you need a second adblocker to block somethings just enable the block list of the second one in the first one.

In fact just use uBlock Origin and be done with it.