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YouTube's new anti-adblock measures

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990 points smitop | 1 comments | 20 Jun 25 17:01 UTC | HN request time: 1.316s | source
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absurdo ◴[20 Jun 25 17:54 UTC] No.44330164[source]▶
I was wondering when buffering was going to be a thing. I’ve been seeing it on YT and figured it’s the Adblock wars getting heated up.

The next step is to scrape the videos, strip the ads, store them on a torrent magnet and serve that instead. Yes it would have to be from a shady RU or CN or NK or IN site. I’m fine with that.

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nickff[dead post] ◴[21 Jun 25 00:45 UTC] No.44333510[source]▶
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1. appreciatorBus ◴[21 Jun 25 00:57 UTC] No.44333577[source]▶
If copyright laws were reasonable and limited to what was necessary to serve their stated purpose, I would agree with the critique - that it seems like entitled behaviour. But in a world where copyright terms are 150 years, in my opinion any premise that it serves the public is gone.