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YouTube is experimenting with server-side ads (lemmy.world)
submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by to c/enshittification@lemmy.world
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[–] 10 points 2 years ago (1 child)

I think it's more like extracting raisins? ad contents are still separate from the dough. finding the boundary conditions or ads hashes is guaranteed to work. whether it is feasible for adblockers is a different matter yet.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Not really. Because there are no boundary conditions. Videos are not streamed as a one big file, they're streamed as small chucks, like 5-10 seconds short chunks. Replace one chunk content randomly on the back-end with an ad and no ad blocker will be able to spot it.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    the lengths required to defeat youtube automatic copyright detection even for short segments of videos suggests that it can be done. if it can be done with the resources of consumer devices that's the question.

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