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YouTube's new anti-adblock measures

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990 points smitop | 5 comments | 20 Jun 25 17:01 UTC | HN request time: 1.296s | source
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ranger_danger ◴[20 Jun 25 17:57 UTC] No.44330199[source]▶
I'm surprised they don't just inject the ads directly into the video stream, I think that would solve their issue overnight (not that I want any ads personally). You could also rate-limit it to the playback speed to prevent pre-downloading the stream easily. But now that everything uses HLS/DASH, it's easy to inject different content right in the middle of the stream without re-encoding anything.
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1. crazygringo ◴[20 Jun 25 18:07 UTC] No.44330306[source]▶
I've also wondered about this for a long time. It seems like there must be something difficult about it, but I can't even guess. Otherwise it seems like they would be, no?
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2. kevindamm ◴[21 Jun 25 00:12 UTC] No.44333339[source]▶
I suspect the difficulty is due to a fear of it turning away too many users, not necessarily a technical one.
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3. recursive ◴[21 Jun 25 00:29 UTC] No.44333428[source]▶
Turning them to where? Doubt it. Those are low value users anyway.
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4. ilkke ◴[21 Jun 25 00:50 UTC] No.44333540{3}[source]▶
If the value was low they wouldn't be squeezing it.
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5. recursive ◴[21 Jun 25 21:15 UTC] No.44340779{4}[source]▶
Get valuable or leave I guess.