Inside the ‘arms race’ between YouTube and ad blockers / Against all odds, open source hackers keep outfoxing one of the wealthiest companies.::YouTube’s dramatic content gatekeeping decisions of late have a long history behind them, and there’s an equally long history of these defenses being bypassed.

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    1 year ago

    The YouTube team at Google isn’t all outsourced and generally Google uses it’s top talent for the money making side of the business

    The people in the ads side are some of the best around. The problem is: they don’t necessarily care about ad blockers.

    My laptop came pre installed with Firefox and ublock origin. Google Chrome had ad blocking in it as well. The devs in the company don’t like ads any more than anyone else… Also ads are a major security risk, and using ad blocking is just good opsec.