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[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 months ago (3 children)

You would also have to make skipping to any point in the video impossible then as folks could just jump ahead until they are past the embedded ad.

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

Out of order requesting of segments could be detected as well as faster requests. This would at least lead to a waiting time for the length of the ad.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

What if all ads are 30seconds long, would it be impossible to lock skipping anywhere for the first 30seconds of every video?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Yes for example if you return always the same segment when skipping.

[–] sibannac 2 points 2 months ago

I was having some problems with playback on youtube with "buffering", random skips, the video reloading, etc. It turns out that those pauses and skips were for ads that uBlock stopped. Channels with more ad placements(new videos from large channels, large companies) would stop more often. Looking at the logs for Ublock showed me that yt does track how much of the video you have watched regardless of where you started. Say I load a video and skip to the middle. It will do a callout for time watched.

I am not sure if I'm right but anyone else could correct or expand on this as I am no expert in how youtube does anything these days.