there are ways to counter that like fetching an embed player and imposing that onto the page, or sending an api call that says the ad played, or vpn to a country without ads for a tiny portion of the loading process, etc
we proved that with twitch where you can still very much block ads despite all they’ve done to avoid it
If they inject it into the main stream itself is it possible to block it? I don’t really see how.
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