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YouTube tests server-side ads to make your coveted blocker obsolete (www.yahoo.com)
submitted 3 months ago by [email protected] to c/technology
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YouTube has been spotted testing server-side ads, which could pose a problem to ad blockers.

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 3 months ago (2 children)

This is where AI would come in handy. Start scrubbing the buffer as it’s coming in to identify the difference and jump past it.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 3 months ago (3 children)

It becomes an AI war. They will use AI to make ads to get around the AI blocking. The ads will end up looking very similar to the content.

Ad: "Hey guys. It's ya boy, NordVPN, here today to tell you about the dangers of using the internet without my VPN...."

[–] cheese_greater 5 points 3 months ago

Whatever happened to ad placement lol

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

Then you start using ai to put in anti ads that point out all the bad stuff about the usual ad subjects, I'd say get as code to libel/slander as possible without risking a lawsuit

[–] ApatheticCactus 3 points 3 months ago

I'd be watching a car accident compilation and a Buick starts trying to tell me to ask my doctor about Cymbalta. You know... I might actually watch that.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Aren't they legally required to indicate that an ad is playing? Should be almost trivial to detect and I don't know how they'd get around that.

[–] roofuskit 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

I'm the US? I think only if the content is targeted at children.