host0@lemm.ee to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-21 year agoDeArrow extension for YouTube that makes thumbnails bearablei.imgur.comimagemessage-square363fedilinkarrow-up12.82Karrow-down140file-textcross-posted to: firefox@lemmy.mlfirefox@lemmy.world
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minus-squareaaron_griffin@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·1 year agoI believe YouTube is going to start detecting ad blockers, and there will be an arms race
minus-squareLukeson@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·edit-21 year agoheard its on chromium based browsers. just hope it does not come to Firefox.
minus-squareInFerNo@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·1 year agoSo what you’re saying is that YouTube will become incompatible with firefox?
minus-squareHughJanus@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 year agoNot hard to disguise the browser you’re using. I use Mullvad (Firefox fork) and it will show up as Chrome on the host side.
minus-squareQuadratureSurfer@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·1 year agoI haven’t seen it happen on Brave browser yet. We’ll see how long that holds up.
minus-squareInverseParallax@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·1 year agoNot worried about ad blockers, ytdlp is my sine qua non, figured they’d have blocked that years ago.
minus-squarelittlecolt@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·1 year agoFor a while, it was getting blocked regularly and a new update would come out that fixed it. Repeat.
minus-squareInverseParallax@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·1 year agoLet’s be honest, they never took it seriously at all. They could push a patch for encrypted streams to chrome and even firefox, basically you need a google account to watch videos, wouldn’t be optimal but they could get away with it.
minus-squarelittlecolt@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·1 year agoYtdl has login parameters. It would still get cracked.
I believe YouTube is going to start detecting ad blockers, and there will be an arms race
heard its on chromium based browsers. just hope it does not come to Firefox.
So what you’re saying is that YouTube will become incompatible with firefox?
Not hard to disguise the browser you’re using. I use Mullvad (Firefox fork) and it will show up as Chrome on the host side.
I haven’t seen it happen on Brave browser yet. We’ll see how long that holds up.
Not worried about ad blockers, ytdlp is my sine qua non, figured they’d have blocked that years ago.
For a while, it was getting blocked regularly and a new update would come out that fixed it. Repeat.
Let’s be honest, they never took it seriously at all.
They could push a patch for encrypted streams to chrome and even firefox, basically you need a google account to watch videos, wouldn’t be optimal but they could get away with it.
Ytdl has login parameters. It would still get cracked.
One that they’ll never win