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some_guy ,

Aha! So this is how one snuck into a video I downloaded last night. Fuckers. At least with a locally downloaded file I can quickly skip ahead.

elbarto777 ,

Or even trim it.

roofuskit ,

Way back in the day when I used SageTV to record live TV there were programs that would automatically identify commercials and skip them for you. Computers are way more powerful now so I doubt it will be long before there’s and app that automatically downloads your favorite YouTube channels and prescans the videos to skip the ads.

I_Miss_Daniel ,

Still using comskip.exe today although it seems to be having more trouble than it used to.

zcd ,

Fuck youtube

DevCat ,
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Yet another reason I’m glad I use youtube-dl.

empireOfLove2 ,

If they’re truly server-side injected, then they would also appear permanently in any downloaded copy because the servere would be telling the client what pieces are available-including the ad pieces.

mp3 ,
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At least I can trim those away if needed.

aedelred ,
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At least if still downloads them you can edit them out if it’s something you want to save.

p5yk0t1km1r4ge ,
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I’m so fucking sick of their greedy bullshit

Bishma , (edited )
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~~My local invidious instance is borked too. Not sure if its related and I don’t have time to investigate now. ~~ Guess I need something else for background noise.

Edit: Took enough time to get a fresh image and its working again. Looks like I hadn’t updated since September.

illi ,

Since it is server side, will this effect the alternative front ends?

magic_lobster_party ,

That’s the point. They want to stop people bypassing ads by using alternative front ends. If they succeed with server side ads, then it’s going to be difficult to block ads. Maybe not impossible, but difficult.

illi ,

That’s what I figured, but I’m not expert on how things work so wanted someone who knows more chime in. Sad times

roofuskit ,

It won’t, you’ll just use an app that pre downloads all your favorite channels and scans them for ads so it can auto skip them.

magic_lobster_party ,

It’s maybe doable, but figuring out where ads start and end in a video file isn’t necessarily trivial. The app must know what to look for, and YouTube might try to obfuscate it to make it harder.

Restaldt ,

Trust in the Foss.

If it pisses people off enough they will manually create a database of videos and ad timestamps for removal if it can’t be easily automated.

magic_lobster_party ,

Database of ad timestamps like sponsorblock only works if ads happens at the same timestamps (and are of equal length). This is not necessarily the case.

The only reliable way I can come up with is a database of ads to look for, but that can be huge to accommodate for all possible ads. There’s also risk of false positives (risk of skipping video when there are no ad).

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