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YouTube has been spotted testing server-side ads, which could pose a problem to ad blockers.

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[-] linearchaos@lemmy.world 4 points 4 months ago

Sponsor block works so well because the content to skip is exactly in the same place for everyone's video.

They don't have that kind of limitation.

Sb also requires you to initiate a fast forward during a commercial. They could ignore that command while commercials are running.

At that point we need to store the buffer as it's coming in. Detect the commercials based on sound or scene changes.

Since they do have a limited number of of commercials, if we did the crowd effort to identify and catalog /fingerprint commercials we may be able to do a more accurate method for detection and skip. At least until they are modifying the commercials with AI to avoid detection.

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