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Google owns Youtube and youtube-dl doesn't serve google ads?

wow, total brain fart. of course. makes mental note to not be so quick to post right before bed

youtube-dl users probably are tiny drop among the adblock users who also do not see ads. And Google does not care about adblock.

I assume google cares about people who block ads because a month or so ago, google figured out how to show ads even though I am using a content blocker on iOS and macOS.

Will probably work on manifest v3 chrome then too

I don't think so. Disabling ads on youtube requires injecting JavaScript. It's not forbidden in manifest v3 (and it would be absurd to forbid it, as 99% extensions exist because of this).

For reference: I don't see ads on youtube using hand-crafted JS which was inspired by uBlock origin, so I think that uBlock origin should work as well.

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