• overcast5348@lemmy.world
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      2 months ago

      The ads come at different entry and exit points for every user.

      They’re not referring to the YouTube ads, but the “let’s take a minute to talk about today’s sponsor nordvpn that I used on my trip to Antarctica.” This is a part of the video file itself, and it starts and ends at the same time for all users.

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      2 months ago

      Pretty sure they just use timestamps from a crowdsourced database, just like sponsorblock.

      Nope, it’s analyzing the sound to guess where the intro starts and ends. Turns out this is pretty simple to implement, but quite reliable. Source: worked for Plex

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          This is about intro detection in TV shows, not ad blocking. I’m not proposing this as a good way to block ads, just noting that this feature in Plex doesn’t use a database.