But then you’ll get prompts for “What product did you just watch an ad for?”
Comment on YouTube cracking on ad blockers.
logicbomb@lemmy.world 11 months agoI suspect ad blocking will always be an arms race. The server can only ask the client to play the ad, and then rely on the client to truthfully report whether it did so.
MR_GABARISE@lemmy.world 11 months ago
rwhitisissle@lemmy.world 11 months ago
“Drink verification can.”
killeronthecorner@lemmy.world 11 months 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.
zurohki@aussie.zone 11 months 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.
shamrock@lemmy.world 11 months 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.
Gabu@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Timestamps can still be voluntarily marked for an auto-skip feature to jump throughthe ads.
shamrock@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Not if YouTube interjects the ad after uploading and the location is randomized.
netchami@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
That’s why there pushing Web Environment Integrity (essentially just DRM for the entire internet)
r3df0x@7.62x54r.ru 11 months 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
ElectroNeutrino@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Funny you say that:
techdirt.com/…/googles-plan-to-drm-the-web-goes-a…
KittyCat@lemmy.world 11 months 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