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There exists crowdsourced adblocking based on timestamps (SponsorBlock, Tubular). Soon we will have realtime on-device content-aware AI adblocking. They will ev
by noman-land 1y ago
There exists crowdsourced adblocking based on timestamps (SponsorBlock, Tubular). Soon we will have realtime on-device content-aware AI adblocking. They will ever win.
- thomassmith65 1y agoOnce we get content-aware AI adblocking, every video and podcast will turn into a product placement.
- ekianjo 1y agoThey are already doing product placement everywhere..'
- thomassmith65 1y agoFew shows are relentless about it. In the future, everything will be like that vapid chicken wing podcast (the one where they bring on an interesting, talented person and then waste half an hour interviewing her about sriracha) So Ira Glass will be narrating This American Life while simultaneously reviewing different varieties of Doritos, etc. ...or the producers of The Rest is History will add the Planters Peanut Man as a third host ...or Marques Brownlee will review every product in relation to how well it works with Bose headphones
- squigz 1y agoNo, the future will not be like that.
- thomassmith65 1y agoI've seen the future, and it kills 99.99% of germs, bacteria and viruses... ...it powers through tough grease and grime ...with no harsh smells! The future is Fantastik®.
- sodality2 1y ago> Few shows are relentless about it. My favorite relentless one is Tracker (Amazon Prime), who spend approximately 30% of screen time dedicated to showing off a GMC pickup and Airstream, but the most egregious was one dialog line: > As Colter enters and gives them hugs, Velma remembers that they got a gift for him. Reenie hands him the gift - very conspicuously packaged in an Amazon box with its trademark logo and blue tape - and says, "I've gotta say, next-day delivery is pretty sweet. Thank you, Amazon Prime!"
- nickthegreek 1y agothat is not what they do on hot ones. sean is an intelligent interviewer and their team goes above and beyond to find interesting lore in people’s past to showcase. guests are routinely impressed.
- thomassmith65 1y agoIf a person enjoys a show that is also a brand of hot sauce, it's not for me to say they shouldn't. It's just not my thing; I have too many hangups.
- noman-land 1y agoEven though I hate advertising I think Hot Ones is one of the few efforts to do a good job with this. 1. Interviewing a guest while they are eating insanely spicy food is an extremely novel idea and the guest's reactions and answers end up being really interesting and unexpected as a result. It humanizes famous people in a way I've never seen before because you can't just bluff your way through it. 2. The hot sauce vendors are often small companies or indie makers (at least they used to be). This is way different than reviewing 11 bags of Superman Transformers 3D Doritos Walmart Product Placement for the next blockbuster. 3. Hot sauce is interesting! Nearly every culture on every continent has hot sauce. They are made from a huge variety of interesting and unusual ingredients but are also simple and can be made at home. Hot sauce hasn't been explored in this way in popular culture.
- xnx 1y agoI use content aware ad blocking to remove inserted and native ads from podcasts. The next level adblocking will be rewriting content that is overly commercial.
- toomuchtodo 1y agoLLM ad blockers as content processors are next.
- noahjk 1y agoAny info on how you do that?
- coppsilgold 1y agoI imagine you can do it by AI-transcribing the podcast while preserving timestamp metadata for each symbol. Use LLM to identify undesirable segments (ask it to output json or something) and then cut them out from the audio with ffmpeg. Then you would need to set up a server that would do all this and serve as a 'mirror' to your podcasts without the ads.
- noahjk 1y agoI actually found a project which does almost exactly what you've described: https://github.com/jdrbc/podly_pure_podcasts https://github.com/jdrbc/podly_pure_podcasts
- xnx 1y agoYou almost exactly described my process: podcast-dl > whisper > Gemini > ffmpeg > ftp > cheap web host
- thomassmith65 1y agoIf you've gone through that much effort, you might as well turn it into a subscription service. It would be resource intensive, but some people would gladly pay through their nose to rid their podcasts of ads.
- hsbauauvhabzb 1y agoIt’s already a race to the bottom, blocking tech improves and so does marketing. The latter will pump out as much as you’re scientifically proven to accept before switching off.
- bitpush 1y agoI'm sorry to burst your bubble but ad blockers are on borrowed time. This is like saying I was able to sneak into a concert. Sure, but at some point the restrictions are gonna come down hard.
- grugagag 1y agoThere will always be a cat and mouse chase, regardless of technology advancements.
- noman-land 1y agoAll I ask is that I can pay the creator directly for content without any middle-man. Anything less will be routed around. It's not like sneaking into a concert. It's like attending a free concert at a mall and wearing a mask so the cameras can't read your lips. Or covering your phone screen with your hand when you show a friend a private photo of a special moment.
- bitpush 1y ago> It's like attending a free concert at a mall Who pays for the electricity, upkeep, security and airconditioning of the mall? Who pays for the sound stage, the technicians, the lighting of the mall? The band decided to perform at the mall, because they like the facilities there. They always had a choice to perform at their house ("own website"), but they chose the mall ("YouTube") and as long as YouTube is hosting their videos, YouTube deserves to be compensated.
- globular-toast 1y agoThat is between the band and the mall. The public didn't sign up for anything.
- globular-toast 1y agoIt's not analogous to sneaking into a concert. YouTube is open and public, always has been. It would not be YouTube if it wasn't.
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