Comment on YouTube has found a new way to load ads | AdGuard Blog
xnx@slrpnk.net 4 days ago
Imma start subscribing to the RSS feeds of torrents made for specific channels before i watch ads.
If youtube wants to make their website so hostile its easier to get better versions of youtube videos without YouTube then those games will be played.
winterayars@sh.itjust.works 4 days ago
RSS feed -> yt-dlp script -> auto queue the folder into the player of your choice. Hmm…
MangoPenguin@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 days ago
Next step is machine learning to recognize ads and cut them out automatically hah.
winterayars@sh.itjust.works 4 days ago
Don’t need to go that far, i think. If you had your extension hash some piece of each keyframe (basically: tokenize some IDs for each keyframe) and submit them to a database you could then see which parts were shown to everyone vs only to some people and only display those. Basically similar to how sponsorblock crowd sources its sponsor segment detection but automated. Some people would see the ads but then you’d know what the og video was unless it gets edited.
This is assuming they’re not reencoding the video for each advertisement, which they probably aren’t. If they are it probably gets easier, actually. Sponsorblock could do that.
MangoPenguin@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 days ago
Oh that’s a smart way of doing it!