Everytime news like this comes up, I'm never affected. I'm using uBlock Origin. Is there something unique about uBlock Origin? Are other adblockers easily noticed by YouTube?
TFA mentions complaints from users of Brave browser, which appears to use it's own bespoke ad-blocker [0]. It includes some filters from uBlock Origin [1], but these files are six years old. Are those filters updated at runtime (e.g. from [2], [3], [4], [5])? If so, then why include old filters in the repo? Surely, Brave isn't using six year old filters.
TFA mentions complaints from users of Brave browser, which appears to use it's own bespoke ad-blocker [0]. It includes some filters from uBlock Origin [1], but these files are six years old. Are those filters updated at runtime (e.g. from [2], [3], [4], [5])? If so, then why include old filters in the repo? Surely, Brave isn't using six year old filters.
[0] https://github.com/brave/adblock-rust
[1] https://github.com/brave/adblock-rust/tree/master/data/uBloc...
[2] https://easylist.to/
[3] https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uAssets/tree/master/filters
[4] https://gitlab.com/malware-filter/urlhaus-filter#malicious-u...
[5] https://pgl.yoyo.org/adservers/