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Very surprised they haven't started this long ago. One might suspect the problem is ad play and click accounting. Anyway, when they start delivering ads in-ban

Very surprised they haven't started this long ago. One might suspect the problem is ad play and click accounting. Anyway, when they start delivering ads in-band, the next step for blockers is to identify that first keyframe in the player by using a pool of shared signatures, right? So then player clients will need adblock plugins which will have a sizeable signature distribution infra and grief for clients. Then the anti-blocker might begin adding, per-play instead of per-video, a pixel or something to throw off the signatures, massively increasing THEIR video distribution infra. Ad infinitum?

chii 3y ago
> Ad infinitum? AI controlled adblocker is the end game!
- londons_explore 3y ago
  Sponsorblock is almost this... But it uses real human labour to replace the AI, and works really well.
  - extraduder_ire 3y ago
    >real human labour to replace the AI ah yes, AAI (Artificial-AI) AKA I (Intelligence), or "Crowdsourcing" if you're looking to use an older buzzword. I do think there's a few models trained on sponsorblock already, but they're not great.
  - rpmisms 3y ago
    Sponsorblock is absurdly wonderful, but needs an option to exclude certain channels. I want to watch Internet Historian's ads.
    - tech234a 3y ago
      The feature already exists [1]. [1]: https://github.com/ajayyy/SponsorBlock/issues/547 https://github.com/ajayyy/SponsorBlock/issues/547
- YurgenJurgensen 3y ago
  ...which will be countered by AI-enabled midroll ad generation. A neural network that splices two video clips together must already be a thing, right? The advertisers would probably want this even without adblockers, since everyone already has an adblocker in their mind called 'inattentional blindness'. Using AI to subtly segue into the ad rather than cutting would stop some portion of users from tabbing out, checking their phones or just going AFK during ad breaks.

chii 3y ago

> Ad infinitum? AI controlled adblocker is the end game!

londons_explore 3y ago
Sponsorblock is almost this... But it uses real human labour to replace the AI, and works really well.
- extraduder_ire 3y ago
  >real human labour to replace the AI ah yes, AAI (Artificial-AI) AKA I (Intelligence), or "Crowdsourcing" if you're looking to use an older buzzword. I do think there's a few models trained on sponsorblock already, but they're not great.
- rpmisms 3y ago
  Sponsorblock is absurdly wonderful, but needs an option to exclude certain channels. I want to watch Internet Historian's ads.
  - tech234a 3y ago
    The feature already exists [1]. [1]: https://github.com/ajayyy/SponsorBlock/issues/547 https://github.com/ajayyy/SponsorBlock/issues/547
YurgenJurgensen 3y ago
...which will be countered by AI-enabled midroll ad generation. A neural network that splices two video clips together must already be a thing, right? The advertisers would probably want this even without adblockers, since everyone already has an adblocker in their mind called 'inattentional blindness'. Using AI to subtly segue into the ad rather than cutting would stop some portion of users from tabbing out, checking their phones or just going AFK during ad breaks.