YouTube has found a new way to load ads | AdGuard Blog - eviltoast
YouTube has found a new way to bypass ad blockers by integrating ads directly into video content via "server-side ad insertion," complicating the detection and blocking of ads. How will ad blockers respond?
  • ngwoo@lemmy.worldEnglish
    21·
    2 months ago

    You’re forgetting the part where the video is coming from a cache server that isn’t designed to do this

    • Blue_Morpho@lemmy.worldEnglish
      11·
      2 months ago

      They’re already appending ads to the front of the video. Instead of appending an ad at key frame 1 they append the ad at key frame 30,000.