Isn't there some law that you have to visually indicate whether a given piece of content is sponsored (ad) or not? Can't that just be detected by ad blockers to skip/hide ads?

I'm not sure about the mechanism, but isn't this the same thing as ancient early DVR's like TiVo that would record from the cable stream and omit the ads segments?

IIRC, Twitch uses similar ad injection. Ad blockers get around it by opening new video streams until they find one that isn't running an ad. Could be wrong though, I'm parroting an uncited comment.

They can block some kinds of server-side ads. And if google has those already, they have been quite successful against youtube.

But yeah, they won't block all server-side ads.

Google went from don't be evil to fuck you all.

Provoking people and in dispute with FTC don’t relate but if the FTC broke them up then you would really regret not cashing in while you could

Line must go up...

Fun little piece of trivia: the primary use of YouTube is not, in fact, music.

Audio is stupidly easy to fingerprint and identify. It would be glorious if we used the very same dumbass technology to identify ad segments as they use to robo-copyright-claim creators for including a 11 second snippet of a radio ad that's period authentic to the historical media they're reviewing. Just take that shit and turn it right against them.

I assume something similar to sponsor block, some algorithm to identify ad segments and some user feedback to confirm. Unless I’m mistaken as to how sponsor block works?

This is something that would be a surprisingly good use case for machine learning. Fingerprint the ads by watching ahead in the stream, then skip that section.

Actually, I think older algorithmic methods will work. I think that’s how TiVo worked. The annoying part is you’ll have to wait a bit at the start of the video.

It'll require a new mother fucking video platform. We need to just collectively let YouTube die and move on.

Sadly, it's only for Android.

I have serious doubt's but it seems to be the best option right now

That's something like a cleaver, so it's got a blunt tip that looks like it's going through her blouse.

bro it's a meme so whatever

cry about it

You really think there'd be an outcry? Rather than it just not being a popular meme format?

When did this happen?

You would also have to make skipping to any point in the video impossible then as folks could just jump ahead until they are past the embedded ad.

Twitch already does this for their livestreams and has been doing it for years. I'm just surprised that YouTube has taken this long to get around to injecting advertisements into the video stream. Although I think if YouTube decided to try ad injection the adblocking community would fire back with something novel to thwart their efforts and the eternal arms race would continue.

I worked at a video ad server that offered a stream stitched solution going back to 2013. It comes down to development work/cost that the companies need to take on. Ultimately they would benefit from the cost required, but they wanted to be cheap and do a client side solution instead.

It works really well, I want to support them and donate but I'm afraid YouTube will find a way to block them like they did to others...

I don't like to say this, but:

AI

But unless the page ends up as just a single canvas/image you'll still get all the HTML tags which can be stripped before your browser renders them?