YouTube’s ad blocking battle continues.
  • lost_faith@lemmy.caEnglish
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    3 months ago

    Sooner or later, ad blockers should just simulate the ad being played (in the background) with the real content going in the foreground to act as if the ad was watched.

    I wish adblockers did this, open the ad in a little silenced sandbox window. I don’t see the ad, creator gets their pay

    • reksas@sopuli.xyzEnglish
      3·
      3 months ago

      Even the advertisers don’t lose out because you wouldn’t have paid attention to the ad too. They might even win a little because now one doesn’t have to get annoyed by the ad and deliberately not buy the thing.

      • lost_faith@lemmy.caEnglish
        2·
        3 months ago

        Exactly, I don’t overly mind the “paid advertisements” the creators do, the guys I watch that do this are extremely funny in how they do it so if I don’t manually skip I get a good laugh, like the “Adstronaut”

    • gravitywell@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      2 months ago

      Adnaseum is a fork of unlock that fakes viewing ads. The thing is its banned from chromes app store because google is at its core an advertising company.