fyi: You can bypass youtube ads by adding a dot after the domain

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morganism
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fyi: You can bypass youtube ads by adding a dot after the domain

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from a reddit post

"For example,

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DuB8VUICGqc // will occasionally show ads

https://www.youtube.com./watch?v=DuB8VUICGqc // will not show ads

It's a commonly forgotten edge case, websites forget to normalize the hostname, the content is still served, but there's no hostname match on the browser so no cookies and broken CORS - and lots of bigger sites use a different domain to serve ads/media with a whitelist that doesn't contain the extra dot

This works for many news websites as well serving paywalls, e.g.

https://www.nytimes.com./2020/06/09/us/ ... ho-is.html
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https://www.reddit.com/r/webdev/comment ... ing_a_dot/
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