Lee Duna@lemmy.nz to Technology@beehaw.orgEnglish · 11 months agoPrivacy advocate challenges YouTube's ad blocking detection scripts under EU lawwww.theregister.comexternal-linkmessage-square26fedilinkarrow-up1132arrow-down10cross-posted to: globalnews@lemmy.ziphackernews@derp.footechnology@feddit.chprivacyguides@lemmy.one
arrow-up1132arrow-down1external-linkPrivacy advocate challenges YouTube's ad blocking detection scripts under EU lawwww.theregister.comLee Duna@lemmy.nz to Technology@beehaw.orgEnglish · 11 months agomessage-square26fedilinkcross-posted to: globalnews@lemmy.ziphackernews@derp.footechnology@feddit.chprivacyguides@lemmy.one
minus-squarejet@hackertalks.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·11 months 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-up1·11 months 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-up5·edit-211 months 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