The crackdown on ad blockers has been quite effective to say the least, even leading to a lot of folks switching between browsers and even uninstalling their ad blockers to keep watching YouTube. And, largely, that's because Google's methods of detecting and in turn blocking an active ad blocker has been hard to bypass. While some paid ad blockers seem to work, the vast majority of tools don't seem to do the trick.
The extension works really simply by leveraging the playback speed controls of YouTube. While ads can't be sped up through YouTube's player by default, this extension uses the browser's video player to speed up playback when an ad is detected as our Dylan Roussel notes. It's remarkably simple, and that's part of what makes it so clever.
How this affects creator payouts, though, remains to be seen, as watch time certainly has an impact on advertising rates. YouTube Premium is still by far the best way to ensure the creators you are watching still get paid for their work without you having to deal with ads.
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