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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: 0.212s | source
1. gblargg ◴[21 Jun 25 12:53 UTC] No.44337197[source]▶
On my outdated Firefox (with uBlock Origin of course), I've found that opening videos in a new tab (middle click) eliminates ads, while left-clicking reliably shows an ad. I've gotten the fake buffering recently no matter how I open videos.