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Latest Adblock update causes massive YouTube performance hit
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YouTube trying to prevent ad blockers is like Nintendo trying to prevent homebrew on the 3ds.
It's not gonna happen.
That's a bold statement since they own the stream we're watching from
If they embed the ads, and block things like sponsoblock from working, it'll get pretty hard to filter them.
I pay for premium, but I watch a LOT of YT and listen to a lot YT music so I don't mind paying ATM.
Embedding ads into the stream would be hard to counter, but it's far away. That would invalidate caches along the way and need extra performance to reencode the stream with the ads inserted.
That's extra costs that are hopefully orders of magnitude above the lost ad revenue from ad blockers
Ya, but it's hard to use logic for a company that realistically has too much money and power if they decide they want to 'win' against ad-blockers.
That said, I do use adblock(Ublock Origin), Sponsorblock, and I even have / use pihole in the house, and I guess being a 'premium' subscriber overrides their messing with ad blockers. With my TV(nvidia shield) or Browser (Firefox) I do not get any delays / problems. So at least that's good for now.
To a certain degree, yes. If someone at Google decides to wage all-out war against ad blockers they have a good chance. But if that costs more money than it generates, odds are that someone will stop it. Google / Alphabet is publicly traded after all and that means profit above all else.