Why is youtube-dl blocked

[Owen Thomas]

On Fri, 3 Nov 2023 at 09:02, Owen Thomas <owen.paul.thomas at gmail.com> wrote:

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> On Fri, 3 Nov 2023 at 08:58, Owen Thomas <owen.paul.thomas at gmail.com>
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>> On Fri, 3 Nov 2023 at 00:57, Jose I Diaz Bardales <
>> jose.dbardales at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>> > Hmmm... I have seen that Youtube does seem to be fighting my adblocker
>>> > too. It was kind of fun while it lasted, but alas.
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>>> That is correct.
>>> https://9to5google.com/2023/10/31/youtube-ad-blockers-launch/
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>> Hmmm...
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>> It's obvious Youtube is "testing" one's browser to see whether or not it
>> responds in a way that would indicate ads are being blocked. Why, then,
>> would it be technically unfeasible to pretend to Youtube that one is not
>> blocking ads when in fact one is?
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>> I just don't think Youtube has rumbled the ad blockers just because it
>> "insists" with a popup window that ad blockers be removed; the universe
>> doesn't seem to work that way.
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> Personally, I would rather switch windows to something more interesting
> when a blank screen is displayed for 30 seconds than have an ugly ad in my
> face screaming for me to buy this or that.
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Furthermore, I wonder why some form of "splicing" technology hasn't been
picked up by Youtube so that there is no indication of when the stream is
showing an ad and when it isn't.

This world is a weird and scary place with people who want me to do things
with them that I don't want to. Ugly monster. I've been scared on to
Youtube, and I'm about to be scared off it.
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