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YouTube’s ad blocker crackdown now includes third-party apps (www.theverge.com)

submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Sounds like trouble for Newpipe, Sponsorblock, etc...

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Does NewPipe use the YouTube API, or is it a scraper? Also, how will this fix Vanced, that's using the actual YouTube app?

There are also browser extensions that just play the ads, muted, at like 100× speed. It might as well just be a tiny buffering hiccup at that speed.

I guess we'll need to see, but I'm not too worried.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 7 months ago (1 children)

It's a scraper. And, in theory, it shouldn't even cause any issues with ReVanced modified Youtube patches except if they need to be updated.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

Yeah, every few 18 months you'll probably have to get the latest api and re-revance it. But unless they lock up their api somehow, revanced should be good.