Or worse, they are just using third party clients.
Are there any yt 3rd party that support chromecasting?
That is the only thing keeping me from switching away from the official app.
It’s an assymetric cat-and-mouse game.
YouTube does it for revenue and has to spend money to enhance their anti-adblock system, while there is an army of volunteers online who will gladly defeat these enhancements for free with an impact on a massive scale.
But YouTube has A LOT of money
The Internet has A LOT of volunteers
For every tech company with an r&d team fighting this stuff, there’s a plethora of programming wizards whose sole purpose in life is to defeat them.
I was wondering because I have yet to see an adblock warning and I use YouTube daily.
Laughs in revanced
Stopped working for me for some reason. Had to switch to Firefox mobile site
Remove it and use the patch manager to reinstall, make sure to use the recommended APK. It just requires manually updating sometimes, basically.
installing better adblockers
or just updating uBlock lol. not sure what YouTubes team was expecting here
I’m assuming this will escalate to some insanely locked down DRM scheme. Guess I’ll enjoy uBlock, ReVanced and yt-dlp while I can
Well Google has recently been forcing through its awful Web Environment Integrity proposal so…
they cancelled that
Combine that with the 83% price increase in Australia!
YouTube can eat shit, they’re screwing over even those of us willing to pay, Smarttube here I come!
I tried to watch the Thursday night football recap yesterday and accidentally opened YouTube instead of smarttube. I was shocked. I watched a minute of ads to start and one minute in I had another minute of ads. YouTube was basically unwatchable.
I honestly don’t know how people can tolerate it.
