Comment by insin
9 days ago
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.
YouTube could also only let you download the main video after you downloaded the ads AND waited however long the minimum ad time is. They don't really need to play games with ad blockers if they want to get serious.