AdBlitz: It automatically skips the skippable ads and accelerates(16x) non skippable ones, enusring there is no interruption. It can skips multiple ads, yt surveys without affecting your youtube account as well as no effect on creator's economy
No setting up things. Lightweight. Just download and enjoy. Most importantly it is open source.
Pretty lean extension, you basically set the playback rate of an Ad to 16 and automatically click on skip ad when it appears.
If this becomes popular, Google can copy Facebook anti blocker methods and just randomize the classnames and Dom depth of nodes for the button. And they could honey pot it with hidden elements or image buttons.
longer than loading dozens of shit js, tracking pixels and obfuscation code into the renderer?
The moment I can use a cheap edge LLM to reduce the entire page to the few bullet points I care about with optional expansion of content I don’t really care much anymore about render timing - the ultimate cost on us is extraction the information we want from the page, which is getting more and more enshittified because our attention is being sold.
I see your point. Getting the pattern from DOM to create something custom is possible but not in real time. We can not just rely on that. Finding pattern is good but relying on that is not
can't we adapt this to other forms of ads, meaning changing visuals to a height x width of 1x1? This will not save bandwidth, but 'their' algos still assume we're loading and displaying ads.
Yes you are right they can do this but it's not that easy to do and also these big tech giants can't just simply update the code like we can. Everything goes through a process which takes ample amount of time and If they does it also, I will come out with some more solution.
Not true. uBlock Origin works just fine. I actually never had problems with it not working, they seem to update it pretty fast. I'm using Firefox, maybe that also has something to do with it.
If this becomes popular, Google can copy Facebook anti blocker methods and just randomize the classnames and Dom depth of nodes for the button. And they could honey pot it with hidden elements or image buttons.