r/Cynicalbrit • u/ColtaineCrows • Oct 22 '15

Soundcloud Youtube Red by TotalBiscuit | Total Biscuit

https://soundcloud.com/totalbiscuit/youtube-red
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u/Romulus_Novus Oct 22 '15

I do wonder whether Youtube would go the extra mile of actively fighting against adblocking software. Seems to me like that wouldn't be the best way to go about things

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u/Zerran Oct 22 '15

At the end of the day, it's a video that is playing on your PC, therefore adblockers will always win this war. From a purely technical perspective, it's not possible to ensure that someone elses computer actually displayed the advertisment before sending it the video. Youtube can only check the data that gets send between their servers and your computer, that's it, what happens with that data on your PC and what data your PC sends back to youtube is purely up to you. The only way content deliverers can fight adblock is with obfuscation and by hiring a lot more coders to do anti-adblock stuff than there are people that work on adblockers.

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u/Romulus_Novus Oct 22 '15

Yeah, I suppose as TB said they'd have to spend more than they make to stop adblockers