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Thanks to CTOnews.com netizens and soft media users for 1520111 clue delivery! CTOnews.com, November 26 (Xinhua)-- according to a report by foreign media 9to5google on Saturday, YouTube's "declaration of war" on major ad blockers has invalidated a large number of plug-ins. But as the old saying goes, "there are always more ways than difficulties," and one developer offered a workaround: since you can't skip YouTube ads, speed it up.

Developer Hackhive-io details AdSpeedup, a Chrome browser plug-in with ad acceleration, on Reddit. According to it, the plug-in works very simply by using YouTube's playback speed control function.

After the plug-in detects that YouTube is currently playing ads, it can automatically play ads at 16 times faster, reducing the usual 30 seconds to a second or two.

In addition, the plug-in will mute ads by default and will automatically click the "skip" button in updates in the future.

According to CTOnews.com, data from some ad interceptors provided by Wired magazine earlier this month showed that hundreds of thousands of users uninstalled ad blockers in October, a "record number". At the same time, the number of newly installed ad blockers is at an all-time high, as people are looking for alternatives that will not trigger YouTube anti-ad blocking pop-ups.

According to AdGuard, a well-known ad blocker, its tools have about 75 million users, including 4.5 million paying users, and typically about 6000 people uninstall their extensions from Chrome browsers every day. Andrey Meshkov, the company's chief technology officer, said that from October 9 to the end of the month, about 11000 people a day unloaded AdGuard,10 soared to 52,000 times a day on June 18.

The number of AdGuard installations has also surged as users look for alternatives. At the same time, subscribers increased when people realized that AdGuard's paid tools were (at the time) unaffected by YouTube.

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