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No ad blocking is going to get rid of that though, until you run something analyzing the actual video/audio content and not just the source of streams or how th
by patrickyeon 5y ago
No ad blocking is going to get rid of that though, until you run something analyzing the actual video/audio content and not just the source of streams or how they're loaded.
- heavyset_go 5y agoThis exists and was posted on HN recently[1]. If an extension developer can detect when sponsored ads play on YouTube, so could Google. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26886275 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26886275
- ziml77 5y agoSponsorBlock doesn't detect sponsored segments. Users mark the segments and submit them to a database. If Google did try to automate it, you can be sure that people would just move to integrating the sponsorship into the content. Those are the worst kind of videos and I don't want to encourage more of them.
- phantom784 5y agoThere's an extension called SponsorBlock that does exactly that. It uses user-submitted timestamps.