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BlackScythe0 posted...

I think uBlock Origin just figured out how to deal with it. Kinda scary that it took 4 days.

It likely took Youtube several months to come up with the bypass, and uBlock taking a few days to fix it is mostly just because Youtube only rolled out the change to a small subset of users. In the long run, this is not a fight Youtube can win. The adblocking community is just too strong and dedicated to blocking ads for any one company to be able to defeat them without investing far, far more resources than it's worth (particularly where those trying to block ads are less likely to click them or buy the products even if they are forced to see them). Short of successfully lobbying to make adblocking illegal (which is unlikely to see much success given that the FBI recommends that everybody use an adblocker for security reasons), any gains they see are going to be short-lived.