YouTube is currently experimenting with server-side ad injection. This means that the ad is being added directly into the video stream.

This breaks sponsorblock since now all timestamps are offset by the ad times.

For now, I set up the server to detect when someone is submitting from a browser with this happening and rejecting the submission to prevent the database from getting filled with incorrect submissions.

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[–] bountygiver@lemmy.ml 15 points 1 year ago (2 children)

it would require government intervention. Where a regulation must declare that ads must clearly be labelled as ads, so that adjustments can be made by detecting when is the ad segment happening.

[–] ssj2marx@lemmy.ml 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Sometime before the end of this decade I think we're going to see the opposite - regulation that makes blocking ads illegal in the same way the DMCA makes cracking copyright protection illegal. They'll package it with some kind of anti-CP thing and then call all the people who oppose the bill pedos.

[–] OozingPositron@feddit.cl 4 points 1 year ago

The Ol' Reliable.

[–] x4740N@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

If I recall correctly ads in the United states need to be labelled ads and is the reason #ad exists on Instagram