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[–] Mubelotix@jlai.lu 43 points 4 months ago (21 children)

Youtube is wasting ressources, it's a fight they can't win

[–] reddithalation@sopuli.xyz 2 points 4 months ago (13 children)

nah, if they embed the ad into the video stream (they were testing this for some users!), the only adblocking option will be to blank out the screen and wait through the ad (or download the video in advance and edit the ad out automatically), both of which would make it a lot more annoying to adblock than currently.

[–] Mubelotix@jlai.lu 2 points 4 months ago (6 children)

No, you just need to skip the ad. Sponsorblock has been working for years now, solving pretty much the same problem

[–] Zwiebel 3 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

Sponsor Block relies on the ads being at the same timestamp for all users

[–] Mubelotix@jlai.lu 1 points 4 months ago

They can be detected

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