ParticleCore
YouTube is using a new method of displaying video ads
During tests I stumbled on a new way that video ads are being displayed in video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cyk2n-UpRRE
There is no option, or any disclaimer, stating that this is an ad playing, only a yellow progress bar at the bottom.
Ignoring the fact that this might go against EU regulations regarding the clear disclaimer of ad playback, the way it is being pushed to the user seems to be server injected, which if true then it will be impossible to block using conventional methods.
I will investigate more about it, but at least for now the extension is not ready to control those ads.
This is another example of YouTube experiments that took, in this case, months for me to get (https://redd.it/1de9kv5)
This indeed appears to be a server side ad experiment, and the fact that they are still testing it after all these months makes me believe they are committed to ship it globally.
uBlock apparently already tackled this, namely the same properties I detected on my end that might be controlling this feature are the same ones mentioned by the great fellas:
useServerDrivenAbr is a toggle in the player config, unsure if just turning it off here is enough to stop the ads
serverAbrStreamingUrl is the location of the ad streams, but removing it might not be advised since there were reports that in some cases the videos themselves would not play correctly (https://www.reddit.com/r/uBlockOrigin/comments/1dgkrhi/comment/l8y7nn8/)
@ParticleCore Great discovery buddy. Yeah, they are testing some new ways and if they are server sided then it is game over for us :-))
