• explore_broaden@midwest.social
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    15
    ·
    5 months ago

    That sounds correct for me. It is possible for them to switch to a system where everyone can manually skip past the ad in the video stream but adblockers are useless (by not sending and indication of the ad to the client), but I don’t see that happening since most people don’t use adblockers and letting all of them easily skip past every ad is probably bad for profits.

    • Natanael@slrpnk.net
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      4
      ·
      5 months ago

      There’s already addons that can recognize in-video sponsored content and skip, if youtube splices in ads into the video stream these addons will still work (although depending on how strict server side logic is, they may have to pause when the buffer runs out until the time of the ad length has passed)

      • doodledup@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        5
        ·
        5 months ago

        It doesn’t recognize the sponsor sections. The community does that. I don’t believe there is any tool right now that can automatically detect the sponsor sections.