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When it's possible to skip baked in ads (SponsorBlock[1]) -- the whack-a-mole will continue no matter what. Even if it means you can't watch videos in realtime
by corobo 6y ago
When it's possible to skip baked in ads (SponsorBlock[1]) -- the whack-a-mole will continue no matter what. Even if it means you can't watch videos in realtime but have to wait for them to fully download to rip the ad out, someone will figure it out.
At that time everyone starts talking about it and I gotta imagine a bunch of new people become adblocking users.
[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26886275 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26886275
- KingMachiavelli 6y agoSponsorBlock only works because the sponsored segments are at the same location for every viewer. If Youtube spliced in their own ads they could easily do it at variable intervals preventing any crowd sourced database of ad segment timestamps. To be honest, nothing really stops Youtube from just turning on Widevine encryption for all videos (not just purchased/rented TV & movies) besides breaking compatibility with old devices. Sure widevine can be circumvented but most of the best/working cracks are not public.
- corobo 5y agoWhich only works long enough for someone to make some sort of video diffing system and removes anything others didn't get at that timestamp or something