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YouTube Attempts to Sabotage Ad Blockers, Targets Firefox Instead
Today we talk about YouTube's attempt to add a delay for ad blockers that makes it less pleasant to use the platform - which backfired after it triggered for Firefox and Edge users instead.
Read more here: https://www.404media.co/youtube-says-new-5-second-video-load-delay-is-supposed-to-punish-ad-blockers-not-firefox-users/, https://www.theregister.com/2023/11/21/ad_block_google/
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Today we talk about YouTube's attempt to add a delay for ad blockers that makes it less pleasant to use the platform - which backfired after it triggered for Firefox and Edge users instead.
Read more here: https://www.404media.co/youtube-says-new-5-second-video-load-delay-is-supposed-to-punish-ad-blockers-not-firefox-users/, https://www.theregister.com/2023/11/21/ad_block_google/
Subscribe for daily episodes.
Join Discord to chat! https://discord.gg/7QsrTbKchc
SOCIAL:
• Peter: https://twitter.com/pgl
• Jon: https://twitter.com/jonnisec
• Mike: Find me on Discord (link above)
• Privacy and security news: https://twitter.com/privsecnews