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YouTube has found a new way to load ads | AdGuard Blog(adguard.com)

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Celestus@lemm.ee
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Yep. YouTube must include a manifest with each video to tell the player what time ranges are un-skippable. Baked in ads were doomed from the beginning 🤡

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SorryQuick@lemmy.ca
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Are they? What if the server refuses to serve the video until the ad’s duration has passed? You’d have no better option than to hide it, which most people wouldn’t bother with.

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Celestus@lemm.ee
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Seems like that would foil a plugin, but I think it would effectively kill video scrubbing, or simultaneous streams, depending on how that restriction was implemented. I still don’t see this working well for YouTube

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