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Show HN: I build browser extension that skips any type of ad(Not an ad blocker)

ad-blitz.vercel.app

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AdBlitz: It automatically skips the skippable ads and accelerates(16x) non skippable ones, enusring there is no interruption. It can skips multiple ads, yt surveys without affecting your youtube account as well as no effect on creator's economy

No setting up things. Lightweight. Just download and enjoy. Most importantly it is open source.

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Pretty lean extension, you basically set the playback rate of an Ad to 16 and automatically click on skip ad when it appears.

If this becomes popular, Google can copy Facebook anti blocker methods and just randomize the classnames and Dom depth of nodes for the button. And they could honey pot it with hidden elements or image buttons.

can't we adapt this to other forms of ads, meaning changing visuals to a height x width of 1x1? This will not save bandwidth, but 'their' algos still assume we're loading and displaying ads.

Yes we can just hide any type of ads with this strategy keeping our account also safe not like how accounts got banned using uBlock

Yes you are right they can do this but it's not that easy to do and also these big tech giants can't just simply update the code like we can. Everything goes through a process which takes ample amount of time and If they does it also, I will come out with some more solution.

I see some potential for an LLM to unfuck the dom - ultimately there’s going to be patterns

feeding an entire DOM tree into an LLM and waiting for the response sounds like a terrible thing to include in a latency-sensitive render pipeline.

longer than loading dozens of shit js, tracking pixels and obfuscation code into the renderer?

The moment I can use a cheap edge LLM to reduce the entire page to the few bullet points I care about with optional expansion of content I don’t really care much anymore about render timing - the ultimate cost on us is extraction the information we want from the page, which is getting more and more enshittified because our attention is being sold.

Looks like apple thinks so too

https://www.macrumors.com/2024/04/30/safari-ai-features-comi...

I see your point. Getting the pattern from DOM to create something custom is possible but not in real time. We can not just rely on that. Finding pattern is good but relying on that is not

Here's the github repo: https://github.com/dikshantrajput/adBlitz

Why not just using ublock ?

As far as I can tell YouTube has made an effort to detect uBlock, and show full ads.

Yes. uBlock does not works any more

It's still working for me. Maybe because I'm also using uMatrix?

Read this thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/youtube/comments/18c9lf0/ublock_jus...

This is a 5 months old threads. ublock have been able to bypass youtube scripts for a while.

If it doesn't work for you, it's probably because it's not up to date or you have an extension that disrupt ublock.

While the YouTube/uBlock war of attrition was going on, I had to use the newest hotfix every couple of days.

Have had no problem with uBlock for around 2+ months now.

It has been working for me, even through all the stuff months ago. I wonder why some people seem to be affected constantly and some don't at all.

Not true. uBlock Origin works just fine. I actually never had problems with it not working, they seem to update it pretty fast. I'm using Firefox, maybe that also has something to do with it.

No, ublock works fine, you may have another extension that disrupt ublock.

I only have 1 extension installed. uBlock Origin. So I don't know what's going on.

just curious, what's the difference to the other extensions doing this?

Most of them are outdated and not open sourced so can't really update to fix there! As per comments on chrome store

Ublock is open source and still works.

that looks great

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