• xkforce@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    You really dont want them embedding ads into videos like that. There’d be no blocking them and no way to download them without the ads baked right into the video file.

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      1 year ago

      People will figure out a sponsorblock-esque crowdsourced ad detection that auto skips everything that isn’t part of the video.

    • SomeoneSomewhere@lemmy.nz
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      1 year ago

      SponserBlock provides defenses against that with minor modifications.

      It’s been suggested that that would be an absolute last ditch effort because it trashes your ability to display targeted ads or update them without absolutely wrecking your CDNs. You also can’t have the ad link to anything because that would allow the client to trivially detect and skip it.

      Ad Nauseam also provides the nuclear option of downloading the ads, pretending to display them, and even pretending to click them. You might still have to wait out the delay for while the ad should be playing for the first ad, but once you get past that they can’t prevent the player skipping ads without also preventing you skipping 30s of boring content.