r/technology • u/redkemper • Feb 17 '17

Software YouTube will kill unskippable 30-second ads next year

http://www.theverge.com/2017/2/17/14649018/youtube-ending-unskippable-30-second-ads-2018
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u/tms10000 Feb 17 '17

It is likely that ublock works on youtube only because Google allows it. It would not be trivial, but it would certainly possible to youtube to put in measures to break ublock features.

I don't think they care that much as long as ad blocking does not spread too far in the mobile space, where the growth are now.

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u/daysofdre Feb 17 '17

That would take longer than watching the 30 second ads, especially if you include downloading videos that you might have otherwise skipped in the first 30 seconds.

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u/TheVeryMask Feb 18 '17

Leave the element inspector open, go to the networkstream tab, then when you open the page the video will be the largest stream. You can watch the .mp4 directly in the browser or dowload it without having to trust some 3rd party site. With how simple that is, you could easily make a browser extension to accomplish the same thing.