Inside the ‘arms race’ between YouTube and ad blockers / Against all odds, open source hackers keep outfoxing one of the wealthiest companies.::YouTube’s dramatic content gatekeeping decisions of late have a long history behind them, and there’s an equally long history of these defenses being bypassed.

  • TheGreenGolem@lemm.ee
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    11 months ago

    Platforms can now insert ads directly into the manifest file into totally random timestamps. The file chunks’ names follow the same pattern as the original video. You cannot filter or prepare for it. Probably that will be the future. (AWS MediaConvert can do this for example.)

    • BearOfaTime@lemm.ee
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      11 months ago

      Meh, download the vid, then have software figure out where the ads are. It’s possible.

      Hell, even just present a button for the user to hit when an ad segment starts.