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> I think it's odd that YouTube hasn't simply proxied the ads into the same stream to make them indistinguishable from the video. Yeah, same -- cable TV has be
by tentacleuno 3y ago
> I think it's odd that YouTube hasn't simply proxied the ads into the same stream to make them indistinguishable from the video.
Yeah, same -- cable TV has been doing that since god knows how long. There must be some internal engineering reason(s) behind it.
- city41 3y agoOne small reason is they use ads as "payment" for things. Scrubbing through a video looking for a certain spot will require you to watch an ad almost every time you stop scrubbing. They also make you watch an ad if you pause the video for too long. When you unpause it, it immediately jumps into an ad. That's on top of the mid ad breaks the video already has.
- hot_gril 3y agoAnd cable TV has had the same workaround, tivo.