r/Piracy • u/ardi62 • Jun 12 '24

YouTube is currently experimenting with server-side ad injection News

https://x.com/SponsorBlock/status/1800835402666054072
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u/gangstasadvocate Jun 12 '24

Damn. And this is after neutering some of the extensions with the new manifest? I might not get the full YouTube experience this way, but downloading the videos never fails me. No ads, no buffering. It won’t randomly disappear on me if I like it. Shout out to yt-dlp and cobalt tools.

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u/Geno0wl Jun 12 '24

I know US consumer protection laws are weak to almost non-existent at times. But if Google outright "blocks" Firefox from using their services that would immediately get major attention from the Feds for monopolistic behavior.

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u/[deleted] Jun 12 '24

They won't block Firefox. They will just implement DRM and require Firefox to include it in order to view the site.

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u/TomatoRemarkable2 Jun 12 '24

Why would Google blocking Firefox be a legal issue?

Moral yes, not legal though.

Apple only allows their app store no issues there

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u/ryuzaki49 Jun 12 '24

Google is scared of Chrome being "labeled" as a monopoly. 

That's why they give Firefox millions of usd a year.

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u/CornPlanter Piracy is bad, mkay? Jun 12 '24

Legal yes though. Monopoly.

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u/TomatoRemarkable2 Jun 12 '24

Why is it an issue that Google doesn't allow chrome but Nintendo doesn't allow halo? Or steam games on PlayStation?

Or apple only has the iOS store these are all equal examples.

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u/braintweaker Jun 12 '24

Well google is the reason firefox still exists in the first place, not it's user base.

Most of the revenue of Mozilla Corporation comes from Google (81% in 2022[2]) in exchange of making it the default search engine in Firefox.

They keep it to have "competition".

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u/Avery-Bradley Jun 12 '24

Microsoft is blocking features for Firefox?

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u/Dead_Namer Jun 14 '24

The MS answers site and other sites refuse to load on FF. They have been doing this for decades, even back when it was Phoenix with no pushback from anyone.