That’s why you’d need to stream the ad one second at a time so you can’t scan the full file. Whether you’re watching an ad or not, you’d be waiting for the ad to finish.
Of course this is a rather naive idea, but it just shows how one might go about accomplishing this. I’m sure Google’s programmers can come up with much better solutions.
Interesting. But it probably only takes less than a few seconds for a program to scan a 30s video file and extract that bit of information.
That’s why you’d need to stream the ad one second at a time so you can’t scan the full file. Whether you’re watching an ad or not, you’d be waiting for the ad to finish.
Of course this is a rather naive idea, but it just shows how one might go about accomplishing this. I’m sure Google’s programmers can come up with much better solutions.