Comment on YouTube cracking on ad blockers.

• r3df0x@7.62x54r.ru ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I’m sure they’ll try to implement some type of DRM BS into the web that allows them. It’s one of the good things about projects like Gemini. I used to think it was only good for the novelty of having a web alternative protocol.

  No doubt Big Tech would lobby for Microsoft to use Windows to flag Gemini browsers as malicious and then run FUD campaigns against the Gemini protocol

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  • ElectroNeutrino@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I’m sure they’ll try to implement some type of DRM BS into the web

    Funny you say that:

    techdirt.com/…/googles-plan-to-drm-the-web-goes-a…

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  • KittyCat@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    It still doesn’t stop queueing a few videos ahead of time and watching them though, let it play the ad to noone and just cut it out after

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• MR_GABARISE@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  But then you’ll get prompts for “What product did you just watch an ad for?”

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  • rwhitisissle@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    “Drink verification can.”

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  • killeronthecorner@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    They already do this on the YouTube TV app

    It’s amazing how many times someone in this thread has joked about Google doing something absurd sounding only for it to already be true.

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  • zurohki@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    You have to be careful with that sort of thing - some percentage of people who do watch the ads will close the tab rather than read the prompt and answer it.

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• shamrock@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  It’s only a matter of time before they start embedding them into the video like podcasts do and you won’t be able tell the difference between ad and video with software.

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  • Gabu@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Timestamps can still be voluntarily marked for an auto-skip feature to jump throughthe ads.

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    • shamrock@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Not if YouTube interjects the ad after uploading and the location is randomized.

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• netchami@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  That’s why there pushing Web Environment Integrity (essentially just DRM for the entire internet)

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