They have infinite resources. They're making gestures to dissuade normies. I suspect this will get them most of the result they want. They're also wasting time, effort and resources of adblock programmers (and that is a far more limited resource).

[–] Mubelotix@jlai.lu 2 points 1 year ago

Sure but as long as there is a least one dedicated bearded dude hidden in a dark underground room behind his screen, they will be defeated. No matter how much they spent on the new technology. What I mean is that devs might burn out, they will still be replaced by others. And we get such people faster than youtube is able to burn them out

[–] lemonmelon@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

If they had infinite resources, they wouldn't need to worry about adblockers.

[–] reddithalation@sopuli.xyz 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

nah, if they embed the ad into the video stream (they were testing this for some users!), the only adblocking option will be to blank out the screen and wait through the ad (or download the video in advance and edit the ad out automatically), both of which would make it a lot more annoying to adblock than currently.

[–] Mubelotix@jlai.lu 1 points 1 year ago

No, you just need to skip the ad. Sponsorblock has been working for years now, solving pretty much the same problem