zlacker

> What they have always criticised is that it makes it harder to do so than MV2, and the difficulty of implementing dynamic filtering with it gives the advertisers an upper hand over adblockers.

it's more than this

the filter list is now bundled in extension, which has to be approved by Google

so they're now the gatekeepers of the filter list updates

so to stop youtube adblockers, all they have to do is:

    - design a countermeasure
    - deploy it
    - don't approve updates until the next countermeasure is ready

and repeat

you'd never be able to block a youtube ad again