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YouTube runs experiment addressing users with ad blocker

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Infraviolet:
AdNauseum: Wouldn't something which clicks ads in the background put you at increased risk of it loading one which contains a browser exploit and thereby installing malware on to your system? Better to block all entirely surely?

P.S. IdahoMan, DVD trailers/warnings/anything else "user skipping prohibited at this point"... VLC media player happily lets you skip them all. HDMI/VGA/DVI... from a computer running VLC in to the television's appropriate input.

langwadt:

--- Quote from: Infraviolet on November 23, 2023, 04:04:42 pm ---P.S. IdahoMan, DVD trailers/warnings/anything else "user skipping prohibited at this point"... VLC media player happily lets you skip them all. HDMI/VGA/DVI... from a computer running VLC in to the television's appropriate input.

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and a pirated movie doesn't have any of that nonsense ...

eutectique:

--- Quote from: Infraviolet on November 23, 2023, 04:04:42 pm ---AdNauseum: Wouldn't something which clicks ads in the background put you at increased risk of it loading one which contains a browser exploit and thereby installing malware on to your system? Better to block all entirely surely?

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Here is the answer from the developer's FAQ:


--- Quote ---How does AdNauseam "click Ads"?

AdNauseam 'clicks' Ads by issuing an HTTP request to the URL to which they lead. In current versions the is done via an XMLHttpRequest (or AJAX request) issued in a background process. This lightweight request signals a 'click' on the server responsible for the Ad, but does so without opening any additional windows or pages on your computer. Further it allows AdNauseam to safely receive and discard the resulting response data, rather than executing it in the browser, thus preventing a range of potential security problems (ransomware, rogue Javascript or Flash code, XSS-attacks, etc.) caused by malfunctioning or malicious Ads. Although it is completely safe, AdNauseam's clicking behaviour can be de-activated in the settings panel.

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NiHaoMike:
It's also worth noting if if one disables the "fast forward" part of the ad muter and add a function to draw a countdown timer over the ad, it would become a truly stealth adblocker. To Youtube, it would seem as if no adblocker was used at all.

SiliconWizard:

--- Quote from: NiHaoMike on November 23, 2023, 05:47:01 pm ---It's also worth noting if if one disables the "fast forward" part of the ad muter and add a function to draw a countdown timer over the ad, it would become a truly stealth adblocker. To Youtube, it would seem as if no adblocker was used at all.

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Yes, it's not hard to make the browsers stream content without showing it to the user. It's dead-simple. But once a major browser does it, YT will go bonkers and will do whatever to have this removed.
This is a war, and not with equal weapons.

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