Comment by SCLeo

Given that YouTube already has a suite of anti-adblocking checks in their UI code [1] (e.g. submit a fake request to the /player endpoint and see if anything removed the ads from it - which also tells you exactly which fields you need to remove from which request, lol), I don't know why they don't have someone looking at the latest filters and reacting to them.

Twitch did that a while back and uBlock Origin was ineffective against their video ads within a few months.

[1] https://bsky.app/profile/soitis.dev/post/3lvk7przgus2u

Youtube offers a fairly reasonable subscription to remove ads. As far as I'm aware FB doesn't offer the same.

They probably gave up in part because Facebook provides very little value...

Let's just build a new Facebook.

We have the tools to make this orders of magnitude easier. We can do this to all of social media.

Big tech gave us the magic space runes (LLMs) we can use to undo them. They have no idea what they've done. All of their value distilled into powerful exoskeletons we can run from home.

Already, it's become apparent that the world is distancing itself from American Big Tech, and they're using the tools we built to pull away. It's so ironic, but frankly justified since we've impinged upon their sovereignty.

We used to say that Google "hired everyone" to keep the smart people from building alternatives. To take all their free hours, keep them busy, keep them from becoming threats.

Now every single one of our spare hours is a salient of attack. I have never felt so empowered to raise an army against the powers that be. They are all mortal.