YouTube’s ad blocker crackdown now includes third-party apps
YouTube’s ad blocker crackdown now includes third-party apps
YouTube’s ad blocking battle continues.
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New pipe and inner tune still work fine.
For now
exactly, it would be trivial to have a whitelist server side and now only ad friendly apps can access the videos. they only still work because it's worth keeping those viewers in the system for the time being.
Technically NewPipe simply parses the website and is seen as a web browser from YouTube's point of view.
That how they bypass the API's TOS, they don't use it.
Trivial? What information does this whitelist hold that can't be spoofed? It's not like apps have to tell the truth about what they are.
People do that? Just have their code go on the internet and tell lies?! This is a Christian internet!
(yes it's /s)
This is what current implementations like Revanced do. The endgame will be fullblown DRM. Until then, it will be a cat and mouse game.
exactly, it would be trivial to have a whitelist server side and now only ad friendly apps can access the videos. they only still work because it’s worth keeping those viewers in the system for the time being.
It's not trivial to make sure over the network on a device you don't control that you're talking with an app you think you are talking with. Just look how multiplayer games fail to combat cheaters and resort to kernel anticheats, and then still fail to assure the players are actually using the legit application. It's actually pretty much impossible in any open ecosystem, maybe possible on something like chromecast where you get to control almost anything (as long as someone doesn't hack it to run custom firmware, like they do with every console ever).
Not only is this impossible, it always makes the experience for your legit users worse (but hey, if they are fine with the level of ads on yt today they probably don't care if google were to mine bitcoins on their phones).
Same with revanced right now.
If they ever manage to kill it I'll simply quit YouTube and be better for it.
I'll be very sad to quit it but I will too.
I can't live without sponsorblock
It would pain me to scrub through a sponsor without being to submit it to the database.