• genoxidedev1@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    It’s a question that only time will probably tell. But I’m 100% sure that, as long as alternative browsers exist that allow adblockers, they’ll find a way to block ads on e.g. Youtube.

    Unless they start injecting the ads into the video directly (kind of like some apps do that display ads even when your device is offline), even then though, Sponsorblock theoretically exists.

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      1 year ago

      Sponsorblock theoretically exists

      In its current form, it would only work if each video had the ads injected at the same timestamp and with the same duration everytime, which I find unlikely.

      It would have to implement some dynamic behavior. It is however in at least some countries required to visibly and clearly mark ads, so a check for that marking could possibly be implemented. But that’s more of a thing I’d expect uBO to do instead of Sponsorblock.

      Going by recent internet history, every anti-adblock measure will have its according anti-anti-adblock measure within at most a few weeks by now. That’s the beauty of community-driven open source projects.

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        1 year ago

        Ai will solve this before Google fully implements it.

        OpenCV might even be enough to solve this… although not efficiently.