Lee Duna@lemmy.nz to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 month agoYouTube's ad problem just got worse: Users now seeing 90-second unskippable ads!www.androidauthority.comexternal-linkmessage-square371linkfedilinkarrow-up11Karrow-down118
arrow-up1983arrow-down1external-linkYouTube's ad problem just got worse: Users now seeing 90-second unskippable ads!www.androidauthority.comLee Duna@lemmy.nz to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 month agomessage-square371linkfedilink
minus-squareSomeoneSomewhere@lemmy.nzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up14·1 month agoThat is sort of what sponsored segments are, and what sponsorblock is quite effective at dealing with. If they’re injected on the fly at variable time points, it gets harder, but I suspect fingerprinting could work well enough.
minus-squareVictor@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·1 month agoEven better, yeah. So this solution shouldn’t feel necessary unless as a last ditch effort, definitely.
That is sort of what sponsored segments are, and what sponsorblock is quite effective at dealing with.
If they’re injected on the fly at variable time points, it gets harder, but I suspect fingerprinting could work well enough.
Even better, yeah. So this solution shouldn’t feel necessary unless as a last ditch effort, definitely.