YouTube server|side ad injection and the ad/ad|blocker arms race

YouTube server-side ad injection and the ad/ad-blocker arms race

YouTube seems to now be taking the ads and injecting/concatenating them into the videos directly, making them essentially indistinguishable from the video ...

YouTube experimenting with server side ad injection : r/firefox - Reddit

Youtube is a lot bigger of a platform, so more people will now want to work on a solution. Its an infinite arms race in the end. Upvote 22

YouTube "Ad Injections" Are Breaking Ad Blockers

In this video I discuss how YouTube is experimenting with injecting targeted ads directly into content to bypass modern adblockers.

YouTube's server-side ad insertion complicates ad blocking efforts

YouTube has come up with a fresh tactic to hamstring ad blockers — incorporating ads directly into the video content itself through a method ...

Inside the 'arms race' between YouTube and ad blockers - Engadget

YouTube rolls out new ways to serve ads to viewers with ad blockers, then ad blockers develop new strategies to circumvent those ad-serving measures.

YouTube's upcoming tactic in the ad blocker arms race - Ad-Blocking

... blocking YouTube ads. https://cybernews.com/news/youtube-testing-ad-injection-bypassing-adblockers/ It's an arms race and so far Brave has been…

YouTube's server-side ads resulted in a black screen for ad blocker ...

YouTube decided to inject server-side ads into the videos, i.e. unlike ads ... Not to mention the fact that they re-triggered an arms race (ever ...

YouTube Considers Server-Side Ad Injection To Fight Ad Blockers

YouTube is considering server-side ad injection as part of its battle with ad blockers. Learn what YouTube plans to do and the potential ...

YouTube May Be Testing Server-Side Ad Injection To Counter Ad ...

From a GitHub post shared by SponsorBlock, this is the arms race swinging back in favour of YouTube, as ad blockers work towards making ...

YouTube's Ad Blocker Ban Just Got Even Bigger - Forbes

YouTube is currently experimenting with server-side ad injection as part of its crackdown on ad blockers. Here's what it means and what you ...

The 'arms race' between YouTube and ad blockers - Hacker News

The right in question isn't "to refuse ad exposure", it's to run, or not run, any arbitrary bit of code on our property, whether it serves ads, or fosters or ...

The epic YouTube ad blocker war escalates - TechIssuesToday.com

... arms race to gain the upper hand. YouTube's latest salvo, revealed in ... YouTube is currently experimenting with server-side ad injection.

YouTube tests harder-to-block server-side ad injection in videos

Then they're using the monopoly to strong arm money. I just don't like this model of running business. It works and it has enabled a lot of ...

YouTube Tries a New, Harder-to-Bypass Method for Stopping Ad ...

With server-side ad injection, the user is fed one continuous stream of video with the ad included, making it difficult for ad blockers to ...

YouTube experimenting with server-side ad injection - Hacker News

Amazon Prime Video is not much better. We recently got an ad for an all black dating site. I'd expect them to guess our ethnicity a bit better (and the ...

YouTube tests harder-to-block server-side ad injection in videos

YouTube reportedly now injects ads directly into video streams to make it more difficult for ad blockers to block advertisements.

WTF is server-side ad insertion? - Digiday

Sure, many say that publishers and their ad tech henchmen are doomed to lose any technological arms race, but that's not going to stop attempts ...

Inside the 'arms race' between YouTube and ad blockers / Against ...

It's called “Server Side Ad Insertion (SSAI)” and tldr it places the ads directly in the video itself. One of the popular streaming services uses SSAI ...

YouTube testing server-side ad injection to counter ad blockers

YouTube's crackdown on tools that block advertising continues with server-side ad injection. The developer of...

Ad blocker not blocking ads when I log into YouTube with my ...

See also this article from Gizmodo yesterday claiming that YouTube is experimenting with server-side ad injection. – ... control panel through its ...