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With SponsorBlock, blocking such ads on YouTube is already a solved problem for sufficiently popular videos. Unless YouTube goes further and disables seeking du

With SponsorBlock, blocking such ads on YouTube is already a solved problem for sufficiently popular videos. Unless YouTube goes further and disables seeking during the portion of the video with ads. Then we're back to ad blockers removing some page functionality (the Javascript that disables seeking).

CrendKing 3y ago
They can switch to HLS and dynamically insert ad segments randomly in the video duration. Of course it costs them to build such a system, but if the adblockers are already costing them money to begin with...
- toomuchtodo 3y ago
  You could detect transitions and strip the ads client side with ffmpeg. Bonus points if you advertise the output in the torrent DHT using the YouTube id as the torrent identifier.
  - warkdarrior 3y ago
    Easy to create per-user ad insertions.
    - toomuchtodo 3y ago
      Also easy to fetch more than one stream to fingerprint content vs ads for trimming. Admittedly whack a mole and cat & mouse.
beached_whale 3y ago
Right, but that’s just a problem with not inserting it in the same places for everyone. Don’t even need JS to disable syncing, the events can be tripped but the service can just ignore them, it’s one video stream