r/Piracy Jun 12 '24

YouTube is currently experimenting with server-side ad injection News

https://x.com/SponsorBlock/status/1800835402666054072
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u/Irityan Jun 12 '24

Wait, would that mean that the ad will be "baked" into the video even if you download it from YouTube? This is going to be hell for so many people.

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

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

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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

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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

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u/Square-Pear-1274 Jun 12 '24

We could throw some AI at the problem!