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I think the commenters intention was that YouTube could stream you the video with embedded ads. They would have to stream the content though and skipping ahead would have to be guarded serverside by some clever checks on if you received (and therefore likely seen) the section of the video with the ads.
What probably speaks against this is that it would significantly increase their costs, since they couldn't cache as easily anymore and always need "clever" services/servers along the way. A dumb CDN wouldn't cut it anymore.
I fear it's still just a question of when it's either cheap enough for Google to do it or when the expected returns are high enough to offset the increased costs.
Going to be interesting when people have access to AI video editors as well. “Oi, AI, show me the best bits from the news and remove the ads”
An eternal truth with delivering video content is that you can’t obfuscate the stream itself, because that’s what the content is.