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[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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?

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 month ago (1 children)

That's the thing, I don't think the mechanism exists (or works) yet. I'm confident it will someday, but I didn't think it worked yet.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago (1 children)

You can adblock twitch, I assume it wouldn't be too different from that

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Twitch (and YouTube currently) switches to a new content stream to play an ad, which is easy to detect and block in an extension. If I understand the tech correctly, server side ads would be stitched into the playing content stream. The extension would have to know the content of the video to know that an ad is playing. There are some clever ways that might be caught (looking for spikes in bitrate, volume differences, etc), but none of that currently exists in the software in the OP.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago (1 children)

You can click on the ad right? Detect that.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago

Let's assume you can use that to determine the beginning of an ad, how do you know how much to skip?

[–] explodicle 3 points 1 month ago

Couldn't I check how far along the video is?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

AFAIK currently, they just add black video into the YouTube video, and play an ad separately from the main video stream. That's what I've heard about people with working ad block who got this, there was just black video added to their YouTube video