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Youtube could make their ads unblockable by putting them in the content's video stream or just serving them from the same domain. I feel like they don't do that
by guelo 9y ago
Youtube could make their ads unblockable by putting them in the content's video stream or just serving them from the same domain. I feel like they don't do that just as a way to be nice to adblockers, but I don't know why.
- yjftsjthsd-h 9y agoI'm pretty sure it would also be more expensive in terms of CPU and potentially disk.
- 215163831328308 9y agoThe cost is not in the CPU, or the processing or the resources. The cost is in the people who leave.
- lloeki 9y agoThe cost of concatenating two mp4† files is essentially zero. IIRC you can even `cat foo.mp4 bar.mp4 > baz.mp4` and it's supposed to still be valid mp4 (there may be same-codec restrictions, but even resolution can change).
- ptspts 9y agoThe output of cat isn't valid MP4. The CPU cost of concatenating is small though, it can be done on the fly. Even easier for MP4 streaming (DASH).
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- lovich 9y agoThey've a/b tested inserting ads into the video stream before. If most people acted like I did, then YouTube would have seen them come back once every week or two and leaving as soon as one of those ads came up. Right now it seems like most content providers are actually experiencing competition as it's extremely easy to jump to the provider with the least onerous ads, while torrents create a floor in terms of how annoying your ads/drm can be before people pirate
- gkya 9y agoThey are doing it already, if I block googlevideo.com, the videos don't play.