This is an arms race YouTube cannot win
this post was submitted on 23 Nov 2023
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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.
Nothing can beat a VCR with an ad skipper.
And I am not afraid to use it.
They can just embed the ads in the actual video, server side.
Sponsorblock would still work, wouldn't?
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.
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.
Well, if googles web integrity api becomes reality, every site that makes money from ads will refuse to serve any modified client.
I thought they backed out of that a couple weeks ago already
For now
You are underestimating companies. Twitch won this race. YouTube can win too.
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?
Twitch has the unique use case of live streaming, which makes the content’s timeliness a factor in the users experience.
Surely if they can block adblockers they can block this as well?
i'm nit seeing any ads using ublock origin, i doubt thst they are blocking anythibg except from worse adblocks
This has been my secret weapon for a long time.