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YouTube's new anti-adblock measures

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990 points smitop | 2 comments | 20 Jun 25 17:01 UTC | HN request time: 0.457s | source
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apitman ◴[21 Jun 25 03:26 UTC] No.44334232[source]▶
> On Firefox this is easily resolvable - you can use a HTML filter to filter out the script tag from the source HTML before the page even starts being parsed. But that relies on extension APIs that Chromium doesn’t support.

I'm shocked

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madars ◴[21 Jun 25 03:35 UTC] No.44334269[source]▶
The second Chrome drops uBlock Origin (as part of their "Manifest V3 without blocking Web Request" plan), I'm off to an alternative browser. Enough is enough.
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1. cobertos ◴[21 Jun 25 04:23 UTC] No.44334490[source]▶
Didn't this already happen? It just seems like it was only progressively rolled out to Chrome browsers. My work PC was hit with this about a month ago, and now I get ads there...
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2. infensus ◴[22 Jun 25 00:23 UTC] No.44341754[source]▶
You can still re-enable the extension for now