I’ve got a couple questions about this.
If the timestamp is off, how does the share link with timestamp work?
If I quit watching the video when an ad starts and then start watching it again, does it continue with the ad? I watch yt on my Samsung tv and it’s an ad minefield, but it’s kinda fun and easy to report the ads or quit the vid and start it again to avoid the ads. Id rather spend 30 seconds bouncing around menus than watching ads for stuff I don’t use.
If it’s injected video, can I just skip ahead like I do for sponsored content?
If you stop the video mid-ad it just restarts the ad or shows a new one
Shit guess I have to quit yt and move to peer tube full time.
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If i have to watch ads or sponsors im done watching shit.
Suits me. I have a ton of movies and TV shows to catch up to.
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Oh no, please no.
Will uBlock still work or will that also break when/if this gets added?
Based in my experience it does not work. Ads still play
Legally, YouTube has to tell you you’re watching an ad. This means that at least visually somewhere (it could be baked into the video stream, for example), there should be a distinctive pattern that extensions should be able to grab and make the video fast-forward.
If youtube manages to stop fast forwarding, maybe at the very least we could auto-mute, and maybe overlay photos of puppies or something
Bad idea. People would get a negative Pavlovian reaction to puppies after a while.
Imagine walking down the street, seeing a puppy and immediately getting annoyed! That’s no way to live, man! 😄
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They will also want to block people from skipping the ad. So they’ll have to provide timestamps, when skipping should be blocked. Maybe those can be somehow extracted.
That’s a pretty good idea. As soon as skipping is disabled, start skipping. And stop skipping when you’re allowed to skip again.
That sounds so weird out of context 😄
I guess thats what we will have to do. The cats catching up but the mouse will continue to inovate.
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Whata ur problem with ai? I dont get the hatred. We need good foss models otherwise proprietary crap wins.
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Energy usage isnt bad its literally what makes shit happen. Hallucinations yeah but its getting better, what does enforcement mean?
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I doubt it’ll be impossible as Google will be required by many laws around the world to make it clear if something is an advert, especially in the EU. So there will be a mechanism to know if something in the stream is an advert or not.
Adblockers should be able to adapt but I do think SponsorBlock might be stuffed if users are seeing adverts at different times in the stream.
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@GolfNovemberUniform @doodle967 for a moment there my eyes saw “Arch” 🤣🤣
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Adblockers can still mute and stop the user from seeing the ads with black screen (or fast forward). Advertisers will still be mad.
Yes ik they disable the video controls but the video is still served just like before, just that they inject ads into it.
Reminds me of this post: https://lemmy.world/post/16500440
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This is why Chrome browsers wanted Manifest v3 or whatever- they took away the APIs for extensions to do stuff like that.
It doesn’t affect WebKit or gecko browsers though, or customised Chromium browsers.
Correct. 65% of all human internet traffic is unmodified Chrome.
When Firefox was slow, Internet Explorer was clunky and didn’t render anything correctly, and scrappy upstart with a “Don’t be evil” slogan and great search engine Google came out with a new fast, memory efficient web browser, all us nerds ran out and told everyone “look! The internet doesn’t suck anymore! Use Chrome!” We were all amazed that we could have like 5 tabs open on our PCs with a whole gigabyte of RAM.
The normies echoed this through time, never unchanging - “my kid says ‘Chrome’ is the good one”. Even when sites started breaking when viewed in other browsers…didn’t we just finish fighting this “standards” war? Isn’t this what we destroyed Internet Explorer for?
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AI ad block. The AI watches (or just parses the to the audio transcription) the video before you and can mark when and where to skip from and to. With these 40TOPs machines that could be possible.
When programmers with ADHD/Autism get interrupted from a fixation (like a video), suppressing that interruption, even if unproductive or unimportant, becomes their new fixation.
I’ve been guilty of this many times, for better or worse.
I feel personally attacked by this comment.
I spent like 8 hours yesterday figuring out how to install viewtube on my NAS because I got the YouTube Adblock warning on my iPad.
Next stop: AI generated Ads.
Already happening, sort of. Google allows companies to upload sets of headlines, images, and descriptions, then Google’s system mashes them together and tests them to find the best combos. It’s not full AI, but considering some companies doing this are probably AI-generating the input, it’s getting close. I wouldn’t imagine it’ll be too long until Google does it for you.
The game be the game, yo.
It was only a matter of time before Google put their foot down and insisted that you can’t have a good experience on YouTube. Its time is coming.
I watch a ton of YT, my experience is fine. Only media subscription that’s worth it, imho.
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If it’s part of the video now, doesn’t that mean we can just fast forward through it?
Because if it’s something explicit in the stream, then ad blockers will just look for that and we’re back to where we are currently.
Those controls are disabled during the ad
But then ad blockers would know when controls are disabled
All I can tell you is what I experienced
Wait, you already have embedded ads??
Yep, I guess I’m in the expirement
Dang, where are you located?
I guess they could prevent you from doing that by:
- Creating a timestamp
- Sending you the ad
- Refuse to send you the rest of the stream until “Now - Timestamp >= Ad’s runtime”
Please drink verification can.
Have some browser extension play the video in the background with ads and notify me once it’s done. In the meantime show some message like “bringing out the trash”. Can do better things with my time than watching ads Or something to that effect… 🤷
If you’re degoogling, then just do that instead of freeloading on google services and complaining that they either have to monetize your data or shove ads down your throat.
Find a paid service free of any of that. There are multiple out there.
Can’t. Google shanked them all with anticompetitive behavior. So instead, I think I will do all I can to punish them for that.
Nah I’d rather do both; I pay for dropout.tv but I want to keep freeloading on YouTube, and it’s been working great so far, no ads 😉
@sneezycat @where_am_i I like you.
But the users aren’t there. I’d love all my favourite YouTubers to switch to PeerTube, but they haven’t.
Is this why the YouTube app on Roku is totally fucked right now?
Go to your favorite YT creator’s channels and download important content! Educational content, lectures, nostalgic content. Anything and everything you have the storage for.
One day, it will be locked away behind paywalls, poisoned with ads, or just deleted entirely.
Part of preparing for war is stockpiling supplies. Buy bulk storage. An extra 2-4 TB hard drive can be bought for 100-200 dollars. It doesn’t have to be fancy, get a friend or two to go in with you on it.
Download and save everything you value. Rip your physical media and save it, pirate the shows and movies you love. One day it will be locked away or stolen from you because the terms of service changed.
Please don’t delay, I wish I had started years ago myself.
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Just keep in mind that hard drives do not last forever. They’ll last a few years of regular use, maybe up to a decade if you’re lucky. Storing media on a hard drive is not like having a box of books in your basement, your kids aren’t going to be able to use them in 40 years.
Eh, now days unless you’re really beating them up, most HDDs will last at least 5-7 years.
You are right that people need to have multiple backups on different media, especially really important stuff.
3:2:1 The Golden Rule.
3 backups minimum, two on site, one off.
Totally!
Bit outdated info on hard drive pricing, I recently bought 12TB drives for $85 each (albeit used)
You’re right though, actually even cheaper than I thought.
5TB portable HDDs new on Newegg for $100 - $150
All the more reason to start hoarding data!
We desperately need a radarr/sonarr type setup to auto download youtube channels
That would be really cool.
That dosent get your ip banned :(
Hm good point that would be a challenge, then again if it’s downloading the ads too, so google thinks you’re watching them and then strips them with ai after saving them could be ok
Are the ads injected in real-time or at the start of the video?
I assume it uses extra processing power to add them randomly for each user individually so if it was the latter would rapidly refreshing the page over and over again force them to completely rerun the process over again and slow their servers down? I guess I’m not entirely sure how this would work.
One of the main methods of video delivery is actually by sending a series of 2 second video clips over http. So it would not really take much processing power to insert ads in the middle, it’s not like they are having to encode video or anything.
I have said this in another post here, as a joke, that YT can just inject the ads in the main video stream, and it would be just like cable tv where you can’t skip the ad.
I swear it was a joke.
edit: spelling
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It was /c/amotio? Pitchforks out; GET ‘EM!
Then I’ll just start downloading videos and playing them back skipping ads.
All of the ai bullshit out there, there might actually be a good use for ai, is cutting out ads out of video.
Fuck YouTube and fuck Google.
Reminds me of my home’s first TV recorder. It actually came with a trimming function and we could cut the ads out.
