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YouTube's ad problem just got worse: Users now seeing 90-second unskippable ads! (www.androidauthority.com)
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[–] Hond@piefed.social 29 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago) (3 children)

Well, i wont watch ads. If it comes to it i'd rather have a program thats recording videos in real time so i can skip the ad segments later in my recording like in the good old vhs times.

[–] hayvan@piefed.world 4 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

uBlock Origin and revanced are still effective at blocking. Sponsorskip (available as a Firefox plugin or built into revanced) even skip sponsored segments inside videos!

[–] fallaciousBasis@lemmy.world 2 points 5 hours ago

Might want to check out morphe(Revanced might be dead?)

[–] victorz@lemmy.world 8 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

This should only become a necessary solution if YouTube invents a way to inject ads directly into the video stream of the video you're watching, like old school broadcasting.

[–] SomeoneSomewhere@lemmy.nz 12 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

That is sort of what sponsored segments are, and what sponsorblock is quite effective at dealing with.

If they're injected on the fly at variable time points, it gets harder, but I suspect fingerprinting could work well enough.

[–] victorz@lemmy.world 2 points 6 hours ago

Even better, yeah. So this solution shouldn't feel necessary unless as a last ditch effort, definitely.

[–] Wild_Mastic@lemmy.world 1 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)

That was what my grandpa also did many years ago, he was living in the future! Or we're going backward.