SponsorBlock (and DeArrow)Jun 12, 2024

YouTube is currently experimenting with server-side ad injection. This means that the ad is being added directly into the video stream.

This breaks sponsorblock since now all timestamps are offset by the ad times.

For now, I set up the server to detect when someone is submitting from a browser with this happening and rejecting the submission to prevent the database from getting filled with incorrect submissions.

Show threadzaire the bored genderfuckJun 12, 2024

@sponsorblock

YouTube is currently experimenting with server-side ad injection

wow when/if this reaches me it might be time to break my youtube addiction and say goodbye to google

Show threadzaire the bored genderfuckJun 12, 2024
@sponsorblock according to this pinned thread on uBO's subreddit, youtube devs and adblock devs are in a pretty heated fight, like, right now
Show threadzaire the bored genderfuckJun 12, 2024

that thread gives you an idea of the kind of overengineered obfuscated overdone mess the youtube website is

google is going way too far to temporarily inconvenience adblock users

Show threadMatthew
@soop
They stopped putting email ads in "Promotions" and are now part of normal main inbox.
Jun 12, 2024 at 1:18pmFedilab
Show threadKay Ohtie 🔜 FWAJun 12, 2024
@mrblissett @soop I wonder if they're a/b testing that; email is still categorized there as well as their injected fake-email ads for me but it would not shock me for them to put the latter in main too, ugh.