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YouTube runs experiment addressing users with ad blocker

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NiHaoMike:
Good luck trying to stop an open source project, try to take it down (if that's even possible, it could be hosted at a place that could care less) and the Streisand Effect will undo your effort almost immediately. What they could do is try to make it hard to tell ads apart from regular content, which one of the most difficult to do would be by checking if the content is seekable. They'll either have to make regular content non seekable (which would really make Youtube less usable in general) or make the ads seekable which would let users easily bypass them manually.

SiliconWizard:
Maybe you're right, and in any case, this is going to be an interesting time.

Infraviolet:
" What they could do is try to make it hard to tell ads apart from regular content"
I think content wise this has happened a lot already...

Actually, to be honest adverts which are sponsored parts within videos, timed by the video's creator to appear at a place where they don't break things up too badly, voiced by the same person and at the same sort of volume levels as the main video are a lot less unpleasant than actual pre-video or mid-video ads.

JPortici:

--- Quote from: Infraviolet on November 25, 2023, 12:45:08 am ---" What they could do is try to make it hard to tell ads apart from regular content"
I think content wise this has happened a lot already...

Actually, to be honest adverts which are sponsored parts within videos, timed by the video's creator to appear at a place where they don't break things up too badly, voiced by the same person and at the same sort of volume levels as the main video are a lot less unpleasant than actual pre-video or mid-video ads.

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though they are still annoying as hell. Especially when you have product X that is being pushed to every single channels about topic Y
And worse, youtube don't get their cut, poor them :(
But at least some of the more concious channels that use chapters in their videos have the chapter about sponsored content so you can skip right away

Dave:
There is an addon called SponsorBlock that uses community-sourced information to automatically skip these baked-in ads. Pretty much any bigger YouTube channel is going to have the ad portion in  the video tagged within hours of the release. Should you find a video which has not yet been tagged, you can add the tag yourself and save other viewers some time.
Everything is anonymous (random user IDs, no registration) and you also get stats on how much time you saved in total, and if you tagged videos, how much time you saved for other viewers.

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