Meanwhile: #YouTube ad wars latest
>This means that the ad is being added directly into the video stream.
>Adblockers won’t work anymore and you will have to eat the whole adds
SponsorBlock team notes in an FAQ that this, server side ads, shouldn’t signal the end of ad blocking tools, but it does make their implementation much trickier. Some users, especially on the uBlock Origin subreddit, have encountered ads even while running the plugin.
https://www.reddit.com/r/uBlockOrigin/comments/1de9kv5/youtube_is_currently_experimenting_with/
The fire continues