That’s not quite how it works. It’s crowdsourced, someone has to manually add every sponsored segment from a video into Sponsorblock. It can’t detect them on its own.
Comment on YouTube warns it might make your viewing experience worse if you don't turn off your ad-blocker
FartsWithAnAccent@lemmy.world 7 months agoThere’s already a sponsor blocker extension, it would be trivial to add other embedded ads to it.
n0xew@lemmy.world 7 months ago
They would just be able to create and stream 2 or more ad-encoded versions where ads are encoded in differently positions. Then no sponsorblock could save us since it would skip the wrong segments for some people…
lemann@lemmy.one 7 months ago
Those ads would need to be unskippable, otherwise we could just pull the timestamps that the Skip button uses and sponsorblock will be all complete again 👌
n0xew@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Fair point! I wasn’t thinking they would be skippable, but boy do I hope that I was wrong…
Azzu@lemm.ee 7 months ago
Even if they’re not skippable, ads have to be indicated as such by law. Whatever indication they use can be detected and used to create blockers.
FartsWithAnAccent@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Ad blocking, uh, finds a way.
SPRUNT@lemmy.world 7 months ago
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space@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 months ago
Just build a database of ads. Then use some kind of image hash to compare against the displayed content.
pirat@lemmy.world 7 months ago
I like your way of thinking. This isn’t even limited to image. Comparing just a short snippet of the audio from a playing ad to a db could work very well too, thinking of how quickly Shazam etc. are able to identify a song if it’s in the db.