Technology

59666 readers

2672 users here now

This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.

Our Rules

Follow the lemmy.world rules.
Only tech related content.
Be excellent to each another!
Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
Politics threads may be removed.
No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
Only approved bots from the list below, to ask if your bot can be added please contact us.
Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed

founded 1 year ago

MODERATORS

615

submitted 5 months ago by AnActOfCreation@programming.dev to c/technology@lemmy.world

235 comments fedilink hide all child comments

YouTube is testing server-side ad injection to counter ad blockers, integrating ads directly into videos to make them indistinguishable from the main content.
This new method complicates ad blocking, including tools like SponsorBlock, which now face challenges in accurately identifying and skipping sponsored segments.
The feature is currently in testing and not widely rolled out, with YouTube encouraging users to subscribe to YouTube Premium for an ad-free experience.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] csm10495@sh.itjust.works 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

In theory this could be beaten by using a link to a timestamp at 1 second in. If it starts at 0, it's an ad.

[–] viking@infosec.pub 7 points 5 months ago (1 children)

That would work for ads before the content, but not if they are spliced into the running video.

[–] csm10495@sh.itjust.works 1 points 5 months ago

Use a timestamp link for now, if it gets a different time than requested, there's an ad.

I'm sure some algorithm could be written to beat it. Still crappy overall but figured they'd do this sooner or later.