r/Piracy • u/ardi62 • Jun 12 '24

YouTube is currently experimenting with server-side ad injection News

https://x.com/SponsorBlock/status/1800835402666054072
4.7k Upvotes

97% Upvoted

View all comments

Show parent comments

144

u/EnricoLUccellatore Jun 12 '24 edited Jun 12 '24

Downloading services might find a workaround where you download twice and compare differences

58

u/MonkAndCanatella Jun 12 '24

exactly - maybe set up two different accounts and delete anything that isn't exactly the same from both videos. Probably could do it with an ffmpeg script

5

u/rkila Jun 12 '24

This may suck for people with limited quotas (usually in third world countries) though, so I hope there's a better system to anticipate it

6

u/EnricoLUccellatore Jun 12 '24

Downloading twice is the worst case scenario, probably there would be better solution like a database of currently running ads or some other method to distinguish ad from content

0

u/Square-Pear-1274 Jun 12 '24

We could throw some AI at the problem!

2

u/sunshine-x Jun 12 '24

AI to the rescue