Ads are now directly submitted in the video meaning they will appear even if you download the video.
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tbh this seems like the logical solution and idk why such sites don't do this by default
I wonder what the next step would be, some kind of audio analysis maybe on known advertising that skips until it doesn't recognise the audio any more
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Because you can still skip them? By jumping forward in the video?
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even worse than people who stutter in text
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Everything's a question?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_rising_terminal
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Almost every website loads ads separately just because it's easier to link to some script from the ad agency (i.e., probably Google) that handles everything for you than to acquire the ads and serve them yourself, and doing it yourself makes it harder for the ad buyer to trust your results and pay you. Injecting the ad into the video is going to be much more resource-intensive, too.
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There's companies that will do all the stitching work as long as you feed them ad bids and auction houses to get the bids(Amazon runs one for example). It's a very established practice but for some reason YouTube never implemented it or used it to crack down on ad blockers before.
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Because they don't want r-slurs fricking up everyone's videos, you r-slur.
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This is how chromecast ad injection has worked for like 5 or 6 years now, it's super annoying because it's fundamentally unblockable no matter how advanced/neurodivergent you go with network-level ad block methods. It's indistinguishable from the actual content to a computer so you can't block ads without blocking the whole stream.
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It's not indistinguishable. You can define when the ad starts. You can choose to black out the ad. But because of the way they serve the ad, you can't do anything other than watch it or black it out for the duration of the ad. They aren't going to serve you more videos until they have served you the ad
Read what I wrote above. Now picture in your head that I put a /s at the end. Good job sweaty!
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Well, yeah, but I mean indistinguishable in the sense that the data that the ad is made up of is sent from the same server as the content itself sometimes in the same stream as the content itself (latter would be proper "SSAI" I guess), so a network-level ad blocker like a pihole (traditionally the only way to block ads on locked down clients like chromecasts) can't recognize it as a distinct "thing" to block.
If you have more control over the client (like a PC or a rooted android or whatever) you can theoretically do what you're saying and black out the ad for the duration (I guess you'd have to cross-reference known ads?) but afaik that isn't something existing ad blockers are built to do yet. I'm sure it'll happen as soon as this goes live though.
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downloading videos as long as that's not disabled and then embedding the video on the page probably
if they succeed at killing downloading videos, probably won't be able to skip forward while ad is running so detect that to mute/blank/automatically press skip button
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Its all so tiresome
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