Gregory's ServerYouTube is currently experimenting with server-side ad injection
wow when/if this reaches me it might be time to break my youtube addiction and say goodbye to google
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that thread gives you an idea of the kind of overengineered obfuscated overdone mess the youtube website is google is going way too far to temporarily inconvenience adblock users @mrblissett @soop I wonder if they're a/b testing that; email is still categorized there as well as their injected fake-email ads for me but it would not shock me for them to put the latter in main too, ugh. @KayOhtie @mrblissett i feel like when it comes to potentially controversial changes corpos use a/b testing to reduce any backlash @soop @mrblissett they should actually listen to the backlash then cause it seems like half the time they don't  @KayOhtie @soop @mrblissett sadly if the testing makes a big corp more money they'll ignore all backlash and go ahead with it it seems @soop @sponsorblock YouTube devs or YouTube managers/execs? Wild to think they've fired any dev who thinks it's scummy but does the work anyway and finally found the pool of devs who like ads @KayOhtie I know ads can be accessibility issue. But being able to block them never was intended functionality. So where is the scum.  @drawnto @KayOhtie If your Internet Service Provider bans some of the Internet resources, it stops being an Internet Service Provider becomes a subset-of-the-Internet-provider and should be liable for false advertising because it's scummy. By the same logic, if a video hosting starts serving back videos that differ from what uploaded, it stops being a video hosting.
That we can agree on. It's less scum than monarchy & feudalism right now but that's hardly a good thing. @realestninja @sponsorblock you should try adding the filters from the pinned comment on the reddit thread i've mentioned |
@sponsorblock according to this pinned thread on uBO's subreddit, youtube devs and adblock devs are in a pretty heated fight, like, right now