[munk-a]

Youtube is now embedding ads midstream - I think it's just a matter of time before other providers adopt similar approaches. When adblockers were tools exclusive to nerds it didn't make sense to build countermeasures - as advertising has grown more pervasive and obnoxious adblockers have gone mainstream and there is now an arms race that adblockers are currently on the losing side of.

[bookaway]

With adblockers disabled, I was seeing ads midstream ages ago. Ads that I don't see with an adblocker. Anecdotally, my subjective experience when adblockers are disabled seems to get exponentially worse whereas my adblocker experience seems to degrade at a much slower rate (e.g. manually skipping author recited ads on a podcast). Currently the TV is the weakest link, and people should be publishing layman's guides to pihole, or as others elsewhere have mentioned, refer them to a adblocking DNS redirect from an adblocker company. Midstream ads are especially obnoxious with music streams and I hope the majority's intolerance tips them over the edge.

[dbspin]

Em... Adblockers still work perfectly? It's an annoyance to keep uBlock Origin updated, but it still blocks all ads on youtube. So it seems they're keeping up just fine.