YouTube-DL Hosting Ban Paves the Way to Privatized Censorship(torrentfreak.com)

414 points by thunderbong 3 years ago | 162 comments

TorrentFreak article on a German court ruling holding host Uberspace liable for hosting the youtube-dl website, with the owner warning of privatized censorship.

IP address blocking banned after anti-piracy court order hit Cloudflare(torrentfreak.com)

165 points by weinzierl 3 years ago | 58 comments

Pirate site not impressed by Global DNS blocking order(torrentfreak.com)

150 points by gslin 3 years ago | 102 comments

DNS Provider Quad9 Sees Piracy Blocking Orders as "Existential Threat"(torrentfreak.com)

220 points by gslin 11 months ago | 96 comments

Belgium bans Internet Archive's ‘Open Library’(torrentfreak.com)

137 points by gslin 1 year ago | 50 comments

French Court Orders Popular VPNs to Block More Pirate Sites, Despite Opposition(torrentfreak.com)

89 points by iamnothere 9 months ago | 62 comments

YouTube-DL Hosting Ban Paves the Way to Privatized Censorship(torrentfreak.com)

414 points by thunderbong 3 years ago | 162 comments

TorrentFreak article on a German court ruling holding host Uberspace liable for hosting the youtube-dl website, with the owner warning of privatized censorship.

YouTube is taking down videos on performing nonstandard Windows 11 installs(old.reddit.com)

348 points by jjbinx007 1 year ago | 318 comments

A Reddit r/DataHoarder thread about YouTube removing videos that show how to perform nonstandard Windows 11 installs; the page was blocked by Reddit's network policy.

YouTube tests blocking videos unless you disable ad blockers(bleepingcomputer.com)

542 points by jacooper 3 years ago | 1050 comments

BleepingComputer news article reporting that YouTube is testing blocking video playback for users who run ad blockers unless they disable them.

YouTube's new anti-adblock measures(iter.ca)

851 points by smitop 1 year ago | 1169 comments

A blog post explaining YouTube's A/B-tested anti-adblock measures such as fake buffering, and a uBlock Origin filter written to partially avoid them.

Meta and YouTube found negligent in landmark social media addiction case(nytimes.com)

418 points by mrjaeger 7 months ago | 201 comments

New York Times article on a verdict finding Meta and YouTube negligent in a landmark social media addiction trial; the page loaded a captcha instead.

YouTube's Anti-Adblock and uBlock Origin(andadinosaur.com)

581 points by mrzool 3 years ago | 596 comments

Blog post by Zhenyi Tan documenting what he knows about YouTube's escalating anti-adblock measures and how uBlock Origin responds to them.