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arrow-up1131arrow-down1external-linkPrivacy advocate challenges YouTube's ad blocking detection scripts under EU lawwww.theregister.comLee Duna@lemmy.nz to Technology@beehaw.orgEnglish · 1 year agomessage-square28fedilinkcross-posted to: globalnews@lemmy.ziphackernews@derp.footechnology@feddit.chprivacyguides@lemmy.one
minus-squareGissaMittJobblinkfedilinkarrow-up1·1 year agoThis would probably be unviable, since from a UX standpoint you want the first segments of the non-ad content to be preloaded when the ad ends.
minus-squareaksdb@feddit.delinkfedilinkarrow-up2·1 year agoThat will be irrelevant when the control freaks take over. Case in point: anti piracy ads in the good old DVD/BluRay days. Unskippable shit that ironically only punishes people who bought legitimate media.
minus-squareGissaMittJobblinkfedilinkarrow-up1·1 year agoI honestly think that the people at Google are a bit smarter than that, but we’ll see whether that holds or not.
This would probably be unviable, since from a UX standpoint you want the first segments of the non-ad content to be preloaded when the ad ends.
That will be irrelevant when the control freaks take over. Case in point: anti piracy ads in the good old DVD/BluRay days. Unskippable shit that ironically only punishes people who bought legitimate media.
I honestly think that the people at Google are a bit smarter than that, but we’ll see whether that holds or not.