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Sponsorblock only works because YT allows you to skip anywhere in a video.

• matsz 3y ago
  This. It's why in-stream ads were so straightforward to implement for Twitch too. Can't fast forward a live stream.
  • xnx 3y ago
    If you're willing to buffer a few minutes of video, you can work around this. Tivo is a decent example of how this has been done in the past.
    • hot_gril 3y ago
      Oh yeah, that works. Cable TV + Tivo is a good analogy for all of this.
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• Retr0id 3y ago
  Even if they try to prevent that, with a modified client, you can skip anywhere in a video and there's nothing they can do about it.
  • hot_gril 3y ago
    That requires them to pre-serve you the bits for the part of the video after the ad, which they aren't going to do.
    • Retr0id 3y ago
      Unless they want to completely break the ability to seek in the video timeline, regardless of ad placements, that's not going to work.
      • hot_gril 3y ago
        It already behaves this way if you aren't blocking ads. If you seek too far ahead in a video with mid-video ads, it'll show an ad before playing at the timestamp you selected. If they want to prevent ad-blocking, they can do the same thing except not serve the video ahead of time.
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