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YouTube is experimenting with server-side ads (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 weeks ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

I guess they could prevent you from doing that by:

Creating a timestamp
Sending you the ad
Refuse to send you the rest of the stream until "Now - Timestamp >= Ad's runtime"

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 weeks ago

Have some browser extension play the video in the background with ads and notify me once it's done. In the meantime show some message like "bringing out the trash". Can do better things with my time than watching ads Or something to that effect.. 🤷

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

Please drink verification can.