Comment on YouTube ads are about to get even longer and they’ll be unskippable - Dexerto

• Scrollone@feddit.it ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  And the reason is that those ad-blockers are based on DNS block lists, and YouTube ads are served by the same servers that also serve videos.

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  • VibeSurgeon@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    This is my understanding as well, yeah.

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• HyperfocusSurfer@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  this is false

  So far

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  • VibeSurgeon@piefed.social ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Sure, but that can be said about almost anything.

    Still, I’d be surprised if they went the route of embedding ads into the stream, in part because of measurability/skipability/etc. It’s definitely not out of the question, but I think we’re still ways to go before we get there.

    And even then, tools like yt-dlp would probably be able to apply some heuristics to figure out which segments are foreign to the stream and slice them out that way. Blocking yt-dlp would require DRM, which in turn requires changing the transcoding pipeline in a pretty non-trivial way. I also doubt they would willingly go this route.

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