Lee Duna@lemmy.nz to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 months agoYouTube's ad problem just got worse: Users now seeing 90-second unskippable ads!www.androidauthority.comexternal-linkmessage-square370linkfedilinkarrow-up11Karrow-down116
arrow-up1985arrow-down1external-linkYouTube's ad problem just got worse: Users now seeing 90-second unskippable ads!www.androidauthority.comLee Duna@lemmy.nz to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 months agomessage-square370linkfedilink
minus-squareVictor@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up11arrow-down2·2 months agoThis should only become a necessary solution if YouTube invents a way to inject ads directly into the video stream of the video you’re watching, like old school broadcasting.
minus-squareSomeoneSomewhere@lemmy.nzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up14·2 months agoThat is sort of what sponsored segments are, and what sponsorblock is quite effective at dealing with. If they’re injected on the fly at variable time points, it gets harder, but I suspect fingerprinting could work well enough.
minus-squareVictor@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·2 months agoEven better, yeah. So this solution shouldn’t feel necessary unless as a last ditch effort, definitely.
This should only become a necessary solution if YouTube invents a way to inject ads directly into the video stream of the video you’re watching, like old school broadcasting.
That is sort of what sponsored segments are, and what sponsorblock is quite effective at dealing with.
If they’re injected on the fly at variable time points, it gets harder, but I suspect fingerprinting could work well enough.
Even better, yeah. So this solution shouldn’t feel necessary unless as a last ditch effort, definitely.