>Over the past few months, YouTube has been trying another round of anti-adblock measures
>Currently the anti-adblock stuff is being A/B tested, and one of my accounts is in the experimental group
>I wrote a filter that partially avoids one of the anti-adblock measures, fake buffering, on uBlock Origin (and Brave browser, since it uses the same filter rules)
>(It’s already in the default filter lists, you don’t need to manually add the filter.)
>One thing that people have ran into is “fake buffering”, where videos will take a while to load due to a lot of buffering, but only at the very start of the video (there’s no mid-video fake buffering)
>As I’ll explain, the fake buffering is 80% of the length of the ads you would’ve seen, so even with fake buffering you’re still saving time using an adblocker
https://iter.ca/post/yt-adblock/