YouTube tests server-side ads to make your coveted blocker obsolete

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Technology@lemmy.world – 691 points – 2 months ago

YouTube tests server-side ads to make your coveted blocker obsolete

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YouTube has been spotted testing server-side ads, which could pose a problem to ad blockers.

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Ive had no issues with Brave Browser on my Desktop, but NewPipe on Mobile has been all over the place the past few weeks.

Every other post about Ad blocking has someone pitching Brave.

Brave has experienced some controversies over time, including the CEO having problematic political views; alleged sales of copyrighted data for AI model training; auto-completing typed-in URLs to affiliate links that generate revenue for Brave; content creators receiving unsolicited donations they couldn’t collect; and automatically installing their VPN service without the user’s consent.

Brave is also, you know, run by probably one of the worlds most evil people.

Peter Thiel.

The guy who is part of a group of people (including JD Vance) who wants to hook you up (using bff elon's neuralink) and use your body as a biofuel source instead of just killing you. As a "more humane alternative to genocide"

PS. This isn't a joke.

https://newrepublic.com/article/183971/jd-vance-weird-terrifying-techno-authoritarian-ideas

Pipepipe on f-droid is kept much more up to date in my experience. It's a fork so basically the same

NewPipe had to deal with some thing YouTube did to break things. And they fixed them super quick. Last time I had a video not work, I visited the GitHub site and saw there was a new release from 11 minutes ago. Installed it and the video worked perfectly.