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Examining some of YouTube's current anti-adblock detection checks

9 months ago
  • #JavaScript
  • #Adblock
  • #YouTube
  • The web application is heavily interactive and requires JavaScript.
  • Simple HTML interfaces are possible but not applicable here.
  • YouTube's adblock detection routines were found in minified source code.
  • Workarounds are being added for the next version of Control Panel for YouTube.
  • One detection method was sophisticated, others were rudimentary.
  • One rudimentary method was flagging Control Panel for YouTube.