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YouTube warns it might make your viewing experience worse if you don't turn off your ad-blocker
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this post was submitted on 22 Nov 2023
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There's already a sponsor blocker extension that skips when a sponsor is even mentioned, it would be trivial to add other embedded ads to it.
They would just be able to create and stream 2 or more ad-encoded versions where ads are encoded in differently positions. Then no sponsorblock could save us since it would skip the wrong segments for some people..
Those ads would need to be unskippable, otherwise we could just pull the timestamps that the Skip button uses and sponsorblock will be all complete again 👌
Fair point! I wasn't thinking they would be skippable, but boy do I hope that I was wrong...
Even if they're not natively skippable, ads have to be indicated as such by law. Whatever indication they use can be detected and used to create blockers.
Ad blocking, uh, finds a way.
Just build a database of ads. Then use some kind of image hash to compare against the displayed content.
I like your way of thinking. This isn't even limited to image. Comparing just a short snippet of the audio from a playing ad to a db could work very well too, thinking of how quickly Shazam etc. are able to identify a song if it's in the db.
App/plugin idea for the sad future right there: Shazadblock, tuneBlock Origin. Succesful ID leads to skip/mute/ragequit or whatever will kill the noise. Though, the downside of this method would be if an ad in the db uses licensed music that regular content creators use in their videos too, it will eventually lead to blocking some segments wrongly, unless the db excludes this, making it less effective at its purpose... Maybe image is better.
That's not quite how it works. It's crowdsourced, someone has to manually add every sponsored segment from a video into Sponsorblock. It can't detect them on its own.
I never said it did?