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by DoingIsLearning 1859 days ago
On side note on this topic, I am pretty sure I am being A/B tested on youtube with some form of dynamic ad inclusion.

A friend sent me a youtube link, I opened it on Firefox for Android (with the latest ublock lists), it immediately served me an ad.

This had never happened to me before, I actually assumed I opened it by mistake on Android's youtube app.

The only way I found that I could block it was using the older embedded videos url (www.youtube.com/embed/<video-id>)

Anyone has more info on what are they doing exactly? I found a reddit post with similar complaints but everyone was equally clueless. Seems like they decided to point artillery at ublock.
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judge2020 1859 days ago
Might or might not be what you’re describing, but it’s probably inevitable that YT will someday bake ads and mid-rolls into the videos themselves, especially if they have racks of super-fast video encoding hardware to play with[0]. Gotta pay the bills (and shareholders).

0: https://blog.youtube/inside-youtube/new-era-video-infrastruc...

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