I already put my phone down on my desk and turn the audio down whenever an ad pops up, they can’t tell it isn’t being viewed.
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dan@upvote.au 1 month agoI don’t care if YouTube gets paid for it
Legally, YouTube have to detect if ads were blocked and and mark the impression as non-billable.
Pyr_Pressure@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
DerisionConsulting@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
They can only tell that something is blocked because the ad wasn’t loaded from a server. If it’s not loaded, then they can’t count it as “viewed.”
If the ad is just blacked over, it is still loaded, and they wouldn’t know.
dan@upvote.au 1 month ago
If it became a common thing, they’d have to add detection for it. Not necessarily to stop people doing it, but to ensure advertisers aren’t charged for invalid impressions.
CileTheSane@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
If they were effectively able to detect it they would be able to block you watching the rest of the video.
RecluseRamble@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
Well they also infest the client side since they likely developed the main part of your web browser, so they can still know there’s a black cover in the DOM.