boem@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year agoYouTube's next move might make it virtually impossible to block adswww.androidpolice.comexternal-linkmessage-square84linkfedilinkarrow-up1362arrow-down111
arrow-up1351arrow-down1external-linkYouTube's next move might make it virtually impossible to block adswww.androidpolice.comboem@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year agomessage-square84linkfedilink
minus-squareandrewth09@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up19arrow-down1·edit-21 year agoIf the YouTube interface restricts you skipping during certain parts of the video, an ad blocker can detect that and skip over it anyway. Otherwise, I myself will just skip over the ad.
minus-squareCileTheSane@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·1 year agoOr at the very least detect when you can’t skip and mute the tab and put a black box over top of the video.
If the YouTube interface restricts you skipping during certain parts of the video, an ad blocker can detect that and skip over it anyway. Otherwise, I myself will just skip over the ad.
Or at the very least detect when you can’t skip and mute the tab and put a black box over top of the video.