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Inside the 'arms race' between YouTube and ad blockers / Against all odds, open source hackers keep outfoxing one of the wealthiest companies. (www.engadget.com)

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Inside the 'arms race' between YouTube and ad blockers / Against all odds, open source hackers keep outfoxing one of the wealthiest companies.::YouTube's dramatic content gatekeeping decisions of late have a long history behind them, and there's an equally long history of these defenses being bypassed.

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[–] Ookami38@sh.itjust.works 31 points 7 months ago (2 children)

"against all odds" my left asshole. This is always the way of hacker vs defense, it's always an arms race and the attacking side always has the advantage.

[–] dosaki@lemmy.world 17 points 7 months ago (1 children)

How many assholes do you have?

[–] Dempf@lemmy.zip 12 points 7 months ago (1 children)

A left one and a right one.

[–] Ookami38@sh.itjust.works 8 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

And a center one. Well, that's what I call myself. The central asshole.

[–] RazorsLedge@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Not really. There are lots of protocols and such that haven't been broken in any meaningful ways. Attackers have advantage is a weird thing to say.

[–] Ookami38@sh.itjust.works 1 points 7 months ago

Defense is always playing reactive. Attack gets to be creative and figure out how to break whatever tools defense has. Defense has to wait until the vulnerability is found and then deal with it. It's the nature of the arms race with regards to cyber security.