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YouTube’s ad blocker crackdown now includes third-party apps (www.theverge.com)

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[-] TORFdot0@lemmy.world 44 points 5 months ago

I’d agree with that logic if YouTube kept up their end of the bargain and actually vetted their ad buyers. Instead they show ads for fake stimulus scams, fake news, and blatant malware.

I manage a large network and ads are blocked at the edge of the network. Not using an adblocker is a security risk that is not acceptable for my company. I pay for YouTube premium because it’s in my means and I get value from the subscription but I don’t blame anyone who takes the same approach

[-] Syn_Attck@lemmy.today 11 points 5 months ago

I manage a large network and ads are blocked at the edge of the network.

You must MITM all traffic and do some magic with stripping/injecting JavaScript then? Because every time I've tried with pihole, its just threads and threads of people saying its not possible with DNS blocking because the ads are served from the video servers.

[-] TORFdot0@lemmy.world 6 points 5 months ago

We also deploy a browser extension via GPO/Intune to catch those and protect endpoints when they are off net.

I actually wasn’t in favor of that but the rest of team was so after risk assessing it, we determined that trusting a vendor with the permission to rewrite webpages was less of a risk than drive-by malware or phishing/redirection from a malicious ad

[-] WldFyre@lemm.ee 2 points 5 months ago

They said they pay for YouTube premium so they might not have to block YouTube ads

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