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@jbz@indieweb.social  ·  activity timestamp 4 months ago

👀 YouTube’s new anti-adblock measures

「 One thing that people have ran into is “fake buffering”, where videos will take a while to load due to a lot of buffering, but only at the very start of the video (there’s no mid-video fake buffering). As I’ll explain, the fake buffering is 80% of the length of the ads you would’ve seen, so even with fake buffering you’re still saving time using an adblocker 」

https://iter.ca/post/yt-adblock/

#youtube #adblocking #privacy

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@jbz@indieweb.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 4 months ago

「 if the ad is 15 seconds you’ll get 12 seconds of backoff when blocking ads. If you have an unskippable 6 second ad AND a 15 second unskippable ad together the backoff will be 16.8 seconds. To be clear this isn’t server-side ad insertion; the ad and content streams are still separate 」

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