haxor@derp.fooMB to Hacker News@derp.fooEnglish · 1 year agoYouTube is now blocking Ad Blockers – So I just make ads run 16x fasterold.reddit.comexternal-linkmessage-square14fedilinkarrow-up1113arrow-down13file-textcross-posted to: hackernews@lemmy.smeargle.fans
arrow-up1110arrow-down1external-linkYouTube is now blocking Ad Blockers – So I just make ads run 16x fasterold.reddit.comhaxor@derp.fooMB to Hacker News@derp.fooEnglish · 1 year agomessage-square14fedilinkfile-textcross-posted to: hackernews@lemmy.smeargle.fans
minus-squarehansl@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·1 year agoAds can be randomly placed so there is no specific timestamp to skip. This would obviously be very costly for Google, which is likely why they haven’t done it yet, but ultimately an ad blocker wouldn’t be able to block those.
minus-squareVincent Adultman@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 year agoDon’t give them any ideas, a’right? But yeah. That’s true. We could skip those identifying per frame/time, but adblocking would need more resources.
Ads can be randomly placed so there is no specific timestamp to skip.
This would obviously be very costly for Google, which is likely why they haven’t done it yet, but ultimately an ad blocker wouldn’t be able to block those.
Don’t give them any ideas, a’right? But yeah. That’s true. We could skip those identifying per frame/time, but adblocking would need more resources.