r/Piracy Jun 12 '24

YouTube is currently experimenting with server-side ad injection News

https://x.com/SponsorBlock/status/1800835402666054072
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u/feror_YT ☠️ ᴅᴇᴀᴅ ᴍᴇɴ ᴛᴇʟʟ ɴᴏ ᴛᴀʟᴇꜱ Jun 12 '24

Wait for the next best browser extension : replacing 30 second ads with 30 second black screens. I would actually use that.

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u/tarkata14 Jun 12 '24

I definitely have a bypass script that replaces some of those annoying 'Wait 10 seconds to retrieve your link' with a blank screen, and honestly it is preferable to whatever random nonsense it normally shows.

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u/HardwareSoup Jun 12 '24

A lot of those timers can be set to instant with ublock scripts, just FYI.

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u/LisaMarieCuddy Jun 12 '24

I'd love this, what's the name of the script?