Lee Duna@lemmy.nz to Technology@beehaw.orgEnglish · 1 year agoPrivacy advocate challenges YouTube's ad blocking detection scripts under EU lawwww.theregister.comexternal-linkmessage-square26fedilinkarrow-up165arrow-down10
arrow-up165arrow-down1external-linkPrivacy advocate challenges YouTube's ad blocking detection scripts under EU lawwww.theregister.comLee Duna@lemmy.nz to Technology@beehaw.orgEnglish · 1 year agomessage-square26fedilink
minus-squarejet@hackertalks.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·1 year agoSure, but then you just need a youtube front running cache that preloads videos, or load multiple videos at the same time… i know i’m not the only person who watches youtube at 3x speed, so you could speed up past the ad, etc.
minus-squareAmju Wolf@pawb.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up1·1 year agoThey could use stream encryption (DRM) to ensure you’re viewing the ads as expected and make it hard to capture and playback.
minus-squarejet@hackertalks.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·edit-21 year agoIts a arms race, you could always just record the screen with a camera and edit it out as the ultimate. you could spin up a vm, and capture the video output you could use a graphics driver that lets you inspect the frame buffer, etc you could use the side channel attacks to get the decrypted video frames, heartbleed etc, etc etc
Sure, but then you just need a youtube front running cache that preloads videos, or load multiple videos at the same time… i know i’m not the only person who watches youtube at 3x speed, so you could speed up past the ad, etc.
They could use stream encryption (DRM) to ensure you’re viewing the ads as expected and make it hard to capture and playback.
Its a arms race, you could always just record the screen with a camera and edit it out as the ultimate.
you could spin up a vm, and capture the video output
you could use a graphics driver that lets you inspect the frame buffer, etc
you could use the side channel attacks to get the decrypted video frames, heartbleed etc, etc etc