• shrugal@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    You could have an app running in the background that detects ads based on the audio (like Shazam for music) and skips it for you. You could probably analyse all the video slices YT sends you and detect ads that way. I think as long as we are still in control of the playback devices we can find ways to make them skip ads.

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      1 year ago

      Sure, you could do that.

      You could also download the stream multiple times under different profiles, compare them and then strip away differences.

      But we’re quickly exiting “one guy with a bit of Javascript” territory.

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        We left that territory years ago. There are big community projects and entire companies built on providing adblocking features. People will build it if the need and potential audience is great enough.