Comment on YouTube's plan backfires, people are installing better ad blockers

• UraniumBlazer@lemm.ee ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  U could still easily evade this. Here’s why:

  Ad is inserted into stream. Either one of two things happens depending upon the way it is implemented:

  1. The length of the video stream increases as the ad is inserted suddenly. The ad blocker can simply calculate the difference and skip the difference worth of time, thus skipping the ad.

  2. The length of the video doesn’t increase to prevent this. Thus, you get the ad stream overlapping in front of the actual video stream. This would thus kinda be on the frontend, which could easily be blocked.

  3. The ad is inserted in the beginning itself at some random time in the video. Hence, the length of the video doesn’t change suddenly like in scenario one. However, remember that regulations require you to visually indicate that a given piece of media is an ad or not. This is why YouTube ads have “Ad” in a yellow box. This could thus very easily be detected by an adblocker that analyses every frame that the box is present in, and skips that frame. This however, would be a little heavier for the user using the adblocker.

  Trust me lol. There is literally no way you can prevent ad blockers.

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  • Kodemystic@lemmy.kodemystic.dev ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    if the platform decides which and where the ads will run during the video on load I dont see how this could be blocked.

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    • UraniumBlazer@lemm.ee ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Look at point 3. I explained this could still be skipped due to them having to visually indicate that it was an ad. This visual indication could easily be skipped by the local user.

      As for them deleting accounts that blocked ads, how would they identify if someone blocked ads? Generate a secret key for every ad, that would be returned every time a user watched ads? This could easily be overcome, as an adblocker could simply extract this key and send it back to the server.

      Trust me… If there was a way to block ad blockers, the greedy capitalists would’ve done so a loooong time ago.

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      • Kodemystic@lemmy.kodemystic.dev ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Ok I see. Why is Chrome store still having ublock origin there and others? I’d just remove it. But they let it be there for everyone to download.

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    • youngGoku@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Google hates this one trick

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