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YouTube is experimenting with server-side ads (lemmy.world)

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[-] bitchkat@lemmy.world 5 points 5 months ago

I wonder if this is related to youtube being completely useless with firefox and ublock origin, sponsor block. It plays the ads just fine (and some of these ads are an hour long) but when it gets to the end it just stops.

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[-] FIST_FILLET@lemmy.ml 4 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

oh so that’s why i was seeing ads flash by last night

[-] Andromxda@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 5 months ago

This actually sounds like a perfect use case for AI/ML, similar to https://github.com/xenova/sponsorblock-ml

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