Where YoutubeAdblock stands in the arms race

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YoutubeAdblock is a document-start userscript with a split-context proxy engine, remote filter list support, and a control center for tuning how aggressive it gets.

Recent work was a security and privacy pass on the tool itself, which might seem ironic for an ad blocker but is exactly where it matters: diagnostics URLs now redact playlist IDs and extra query parameters, release tooling validates version formats, and permission denials get surfaced instead of swallowed. A blocker asks for a lot of trust, and the code should keep earning it.

On the roadmap: turning the string table into a real i18n pipeline, and a live validation matrix across userscript managers and mobile browsers, because Tampermonkey, Violentmonkey and their mobile cousins each have their own quirks.

The permanent truth of this category: it's an arms race, and YouTube moves first. When ads slip through or playback breaks, the thread pinned next to this one is the early-warning channel. Include your userscript manager and browser, the same breakage often has three different causes across managers.