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YouTube’s ad blocker crackdown now includes third-party apps (www.theverge.com)
submitted 6 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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[–] [email protected] 12 points 6 months ago (2 children)

I still use FreeTube for desktop and no ads here :)

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

FreeTube, newpipe etc. simulate being a browser and extract the video that way..if YouTube would want to add ads for this thirdparty clients they would have to inject them directly into the video feed.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

With the WebM-Format they use it might be possible. It's based on Matroska and there is a feature to replace or add chunks within the stream in realtime.