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DeArrow extension for YouTube that makes thumbnails bearable(i.imgur.com)

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aaron_griffin@lemmy.world
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I believe YouTube is going to start detecting ad blockers, and there will be an arms race

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Lukeson@lemm.ee
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heard its on chromium based browsers. just hope it does not come to Firefox.

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QuadratureSurfer@lemmy.world
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I haven’t seen it happen on Brave browser yet. We’ll see how long that holds up.

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InFerNo@lemmy.ml
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So what you’re saying is that YouTube will become incompatible with firefox?

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HughJanus@lemmy.ml
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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.

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InverseParallax@lemmy.world
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Not worried about ad blockers, ytdlp is my sine qua non, figured they’d have blocked that years ago.

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littlecolt@lemm.ee
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For a while, it was getting blocked regularly and a new update would come out that fixed it. Repeat.

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InverseParallax@lemmy.world
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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.

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HughJanus@lemmy.ml
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One that they’ll never win

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