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YouTube is now blocking Ad Blockers – So I just make ads run 16x faster (old.reddit.com)

submitted 11 months ago by haxor@derp.foo to c/hackernews@derp.foo

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[–] bangupjobasusual@sh.itjust.works 54 points 11 months ago (3 children)

This is an arms race YouTube cannot win

[–] Diabolo96@lemmy.dbzer0.com 23 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

They can win by making videos only accessible via account and aggressively banning adblock users. It will hurt it at first but people would rather accept it instead of finding a replacement. I expect this to happen in a few years.

[–] xan1242@lemmy.ml 13 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Nothing can beat a VCR with an ad skipper.

And I am not afraid to use it.

[–] hansl@lemmy.world 11 points 11 months ago (1 children)

They can just embed the ads in the actual video, server side.

[–] VicentAdultman@lemmy.world 7 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Sponsorblock would still work, wouldn't?

[–] hansl@lemmy.world 5 points 11 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] VicentAdultman@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago

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.

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 5 points 11 months ago

Yeah. Which is pretty much undefeatable unless they get rid of the ability to skip sections of a video entirely and I don't think there'll be wanting to do that. Sponsor block doesn't exactly block things, it just skips sections of a video that the community has submitted it's not quite the same thing.

Those sections might be intro animations, that bit where they go "hey guys my name is XYZ YouTuber smash that like button and don't forget to subscribe comment and ring that bell!" etc

[–] The_Cunt_of_Monte_Cristo@lemmy.world 0 points 11 months ago (2 children)

You are underestimating companies. Twitch won this race. YouTube can win too.

[–] bangupjobasusual@sh.itjust.works 4 points 11 months ago

Twitch has the unique use case of live streaming, which makes the content’s timeliness a factor in the users experience.

[–] Couldbealeotard@lemmy.world 4 points 11 months ago

How did twitch win? Would you not say that YouTube has a larger user base, and therefore a larger target of this sort of cracking?