YouTube has found a new way to bypass ad blockers by integrating ads directly into video content via "server-side ad insertion," complicating the detection and blocking of ads. How will ad blockers respond?
  • Buttons@programming.devEnglish
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    8 months ago

    Ads will always be detectable because you cannot speed up or skip an ad like you can the rest of the video.

    If they do make it so you can speed up or skip the ad sections of a video, mission accomplished.

    If all else fails, I’d enjoy a plugin that just blanks the video and mutes the sound whenever an ad is playing. I’ll enjoy the few seconds of quiet, and hopefully I can use that time to break out of the mentally unhealthy doom spiral that is the typical YouTube experience.

  • Goodie@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    8 months ago

    I’m really curious if they can make video injection of ads cost effective.

    It feels like mangeling video streams into one, potentially re-encoding the video as they go… sounds expensive