• MoogleMaestro
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    441 year ago

    I imagine they’ll eventually find a way to prevent us from blocking ads. Twitch TV for example has found some ways to make adblock useless.

    It’s a shame, and it’s really just a side effect of google racing to the bottom of the adspace game. If ads weren’t as cheap as they are today, they wouldn’t be trying to maximize the amount of users who are forced to see advertisements.

      • @Chailles@lemmy.world
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        41 year ago

        I don’t think they’ll resort to that because that would mean getting rid of their own source of income. YouTube may not be getting ad revenue, but they still collect data and that’s where the real value is.

    • Hal-5700X
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      211 year ago

      Will to be fair, Google is an ad company. We should have seen this coming.

    • @logicbomb@lemmy.world
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      851 year ago

      I suspect ad blocking will always be an arms race. The server can only ask the client to play the ad, and then rely on the client to truthfully report whether it did so.

    • @stardust@lemmy.ca
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      91 year ago

      Worst case scenario I think I’d just resort to downloading the videos to watch. Live videos is the challenge, but luckily I don’t watch live streams.

        • AnonTwo
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          51 year ago

          To be fair, he was talking about live streams, as in watching people in real-time.

          That can be a fairly different experience, especially since downloaders don’t grab the chat at the moment. Also for unarchived streams, they can only be downloaded if you are aware and able to download at the time that the stream is still active.

    • I_Miss_Daniel
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      391 year ago

      Someone will create an extension to mute the ad and overlay it with suitably timed bite sized cat videos.

      • @Hamartiogonic@sopuli.xyz
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        31 year ago

        Oh, that’s just brilliant! Instead of being interrupted by intrusive ads, I’m seeing videos of fluffy cats doing adorable and funny stuff all the time.