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.
How do those extensions that skip download countdown timers work then?
Those are usually handled by JavaScript being run on the client side, I think, so it just speeds that up