Combine this with Chrome enforcing manifest v3 starting at June 2024, YouTube ads will be virtually unblockable on Chrome, even with an ads blocking extension installed because Google will be controlling the ad blocking mechanism used by the ad blocker. They can arbitrarily reduce the max number of the blocking rulesets, how often the extension can update the rulesets, or even elect to skip running any rulesets that target YouTube or Google domains.
Yes, I can’t wait! Firefox usage will skyrocket :D
i hope so, but sadly many users are just stubborn and lazy.
That’s sort of better for the people who migrate then, no?
If the average user just decides to deal with ads that means it won’t be worth the effort to go after the minority of people who will be AdBlocking
They could instead severely cripple or outright block Firefox users. Since we are the minority, it won’t affect them. They will just blame it on Firefox and wash their hands off.
good point
They can arbitrarily reduce the max number of the blocking rulesets, how often the extension can update the rulesets
The size is already just 50. Those who think that adblocking is possible with this are fooling themselves.
or even elect to skip running any rulesets that target YouTube or Google domains.
If anybody acts surprised when it happens, they’re probably too stupid to be allowed on the web.
I read in a different post that the code was misinterpreted to be a 5 second sleep before showing the video, but instead was waiting 5 seconds to execute some anti-ad-block script. Still pretty sleazy either way.
There’s a video going around of a guy using a useragent spoofer to prove that it only does this on non-Chromium browsers. So I don’t think it’s necessarily anti-adblock, but it could be interpreted that way when you consider Google’s plans to implement DRM in Chromium.
Had a look at Louise Rossmans video yesterday about this and from what he showed he got it on all browsers.
When I went rooting around to find it. I figured it was some QA process that starts 5 seconds after the video loads (the timer seems to be async and the code sends a promise off while it waits). Of course, it’s all minified JS so it’s a huge pain to read.
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I’m really hoping google goes to shit like facebook.
Facebook for all its nastiness was very much incompetent in influencing the direction of the web. Look at their failed attempts like free basics.
Google on the other hand has the web tightly in its dirty grip. At this point, they aren’t even pretending to be nice. Even those plans that cause them reputational damage are brought back in some other name.
The only way to stop Google is for the regulatory agencies to put their foot down hard. They should be divided into at least a couple dozen companies that are not allowed to do business with each other.
I really like how my meme proliferates along this 'verse :) I hope the discussions ITT are as nice as in mine.
