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There are already sponsorship-skipping add-ons. YouTube lost before they began.
I’m not sure if a sponsorblock like solution will work. Sponsorblock is entirely reliant on timestamps provided by users.
A similar solution for YouTube’s ads will only work if the ads always happen at the same timestamps and have the same length. This is not necessarily the case, as ads can happen at any point.
There's already a filter for UBO that blocks it. That was much quicker than I expected. Works and is further down this thread.
It’s only a matter of time until YouTube stops that as well.
It's an arms race. But there's not a weapon that doesn't have a counter, even if that counter is mutually assured destruction. YouTube's efforts are inevitably a futile chase that does little more than keep their shareholders happy that they're chasing the dragon.
Then on to the next one. Google won't get a dime from me. They can't stop it, even if I have to set up something for my computer to record my videos while I sleep so I can watch them on a video player the next day, I will not watch ads.
Possibly, but as long as they are not completely server-side (which they can't be, they want to target people) then they are fighting on hostile ground.
Of course there are attempts to lock down PCs so that ad companies can tell it what to do (probably with some DRM argument), but we're not there yet.