anti-adblock

You were just lucky, because YouTube uses A/B testing and does not roll out anti-adblock-measures to everyone simultaneously.

It's a trash shortener site, and they use the `web_accessible_resources` method as one of their anti-adblock methods.

It's trivial to make anti-anti-adblock filters, so most sites don't even start that arms race.

Every so often they also are in the news for AB testing some anti-adblock measure.

Surfacing the idea of publishers implementing anti-adblock measures could actually reduce the adblocking footprint.

Sites like Hulu.com use anti-adblock to ensure that their terms are met and that users view advertisements or are barred from content.

But if you add the anti-Adblock script to Adblock, they won't work as well.

Host files are very limited, and when you start dealing with anti-adblock scripts and other css/js scripts on some sites it falls apart.

Your shoplifting analogy would only be appropriate I were saying that I run Adblock to make anti-Adblock technology stronger.

Their current anti-adblock strategy does get past what I am using - but I have a different clever workaround.

I assume it was first as anti-scraping / anti-adblock measures but then frameworks with styled components spread it even further.

I do genuinely want to watch YouTube videos, but I don't want to have to deal with anti-adblock measures ruining the experience.

They rolled out the Chrome "kill adblockers" update globally then unleashed the new wave of YouTube "anti-adblock" a month later.

For those unwilling to click, the screen shot contains a snippet of the Adblock filter selection, and "Adblock Warning Removal List"; "Anti-Adblock Killer I Reek"; and "EasyList" are checked.

So, while I don't think it's likely, it's certainly not outrageous to think that a publisher could detect that you're not downloading certain content (just like how various anti-adblock scripts function) and request that police go to your address, arrest you and check your computers for "illicit adblockers."