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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago (22 children)

I am not for ads but what is so difficult about adding them to the video stream. This should make adblockers useless since they can't differentiate between the video and the ad. I could just imagine it would be difficult to track the view time of the user and this could make the view useless since they can't prove it to the ad customer. I have no in depth knowledge about hls but as I know it's an index file with urls to small fragments of the streamed file. The index file could be regenerated with inserted ad parts and randomized times to make blocking specific video segments useless.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It already happens, videos contain sponsored segments added by the creator.

But even those have a solution in the form of Sponsorblock, which crowdfunds the location in the video containing sponsored segments in order to skip them.

Google should face the fact that they won't ever be able to win.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)

Sponsorblock works with static timestamps provided by users. This would not work if the ads are inserted at randomized times.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

I want the context of the original photo

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago (5 children)

There is a whole topic in wasm called server side rendered DOM.

I hardly think there is a chance to block adds when they achieve it to render all the content on their side.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

But unless the page ends up as just a single canvas/image you'll still get all the HTML tags which can be stripped before your browser renders them?

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

Ads are not always the same, not for everyone. Ads are localized in time, space and per person sometimes.

An advanced adblock would just need to download the video from two sources match the videos and eliminate the differences as those differences will surely be ads.

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[–] praise_idleness 3 points 1 week ago

tbh if they do server side ads I'd be glad knowing that it costs them too much that they should be glad they're not losing money by ads, which I think they will.

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