You could have an app running in the background that detects ads based on the audio (like Shazam for music) and skips it for you. I think as long as we are still in control of the playback devices we can find ways to make them skip ads.
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Blackmist@feddit.uk 11 months agoThat only works by users crowdsourcing and flagging the advert sections.
By doing it on the fly, each user could get different ads in different places.
shrugal@lemm.ee 11 months ago
netchami@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
There even is a project that uses machine learning to detect sponsor segments. github.com/xenova/sponsorblock-ml
dgriffith@aussie.zone 11 months ago
MythTV has a broadcast television ad detection module and it works pretty damn well.
This goes into a bit of detail on it’s methods:
www.mythtv.org/wiki/Commercial_detection
A lot of what it does could be applied to a video stream, although adapting it to useful real-time could be tricky.
Blackmist@feddit.uk 11 months ago
Sure, you could do that.
You could also download the stream multiple times under different profiles, compare them and then strip away differences.
But we’re quickly exiting “one guy with a bit of Javascript” territory.
shrugal@lemm.ee 11 months ago
We left that territory years ago. There are huge community projects and entire companies built on providing adblocking features. People will build it if the need and potential audience is great enough.
setsneedtofeed@lemmy.world 11 months ago
If users are crowdsourcing what the embedded ads are, couldn’t this hypothetical situation be solved by a version of sponserblock that just learns what the content is and then cuts out any aberrations?