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YouTube tests server-side ads to make your coveted blocker obsolete (www.yahoo.com)
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YouTube has been spotted testing server-side ads, which could pose a problem to ad blockers.

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[โ€“] Strayce@lemmy.sdf.org 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Timing and length of ads won't be consistent between users so this approach doesn't work.

[โ€“] CheeseNoodle@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago

Depends how wide the range of ads is, if its a set amount/month then you could use the same method to pretty quickly identify which segments of data are ads and automatically cut them out wherever they occur.