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YouTube's next move might make it virtually impossible to block ads (www.androidpolice.com)

submitted 5 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 31 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 months ago

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.