YouTube has found a new way to bypass ad blockers by integrating ads directly into video content via "server-side ad insertion," complicating the detection and blocking of ads. How will ad blockers respond?
  • XNX@slrpnk.netEnglish
    71·
    2 months ago

    Imma start subscribing to the RSS feeds of torrents made for specific channels before i watch ads.

    If youtube wants to make their website so hostile its easier to get better versions of youtube videos without YouTube then those games will be played.

    • winterayars@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      12·
      2 months ago

      RSS feed -> yt-dlp script -> auto queue the folder into the player of your choice. Hmm…

      (Edit: Though that may not actually work considering this is apparently fully server side. Gonna have to get clever…)

      • MangoPenguinEnglish
        17·
        2 months ago

        (Edit: Though that may not actually work considering this is apparently fully server side. Gonna have to get clever…)

        Next step is machine learning to recognize ads and cut them out automatically hah.

        • winterayars@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          17·
          2 months ago

          Don’t need to go that far, i think. If you had your extension hash some piece of each keyframe (basically: tokenize some IDs for each keyframe) and submit them to a database you could then see which parts were shown to everyone vs only to some people and only display those. Basically similar to how sponsorblock crowd sources its sponsor segment detection but automated. Some people would see the ads but then you’d know what the og video was unless it gets edited.

          This is assuming they’re not reencoding the video for each advertisement, which they probably aren’t. If they are it probably gets easier, actually. Sponsorblock could do that.