People have found ways for Twitch. The one I'm using from that repository replaces ad segments with a lower quality version of the stream during the ad then switches back to normal quality once the ad finishes. Maybe not the most preferable form of adblock but much better than watching 6 minutes of globohomo ads
It could be as simple as detecting how youtube's servers injects the ads and...doing something about the ads. Or something. I don't know, the server side stuff is bizarre, but I'm sure there's work arounds. There's always a work around.
If they're being injected directly into the video stream I would assume they will be in yt-dlp downloaded videos as well.
There's no way to know what's going on server side, the only way to detect injected ads is to analyze the video itself. But how does a video analyzer differentiate between an injected ad and the content of the original video?
Oh, maybe its more bleak than I thought. Maybe we'll have to resort to downloading our youtube videos to avoid their ads, or maybe that won't work either. Whatever the result is, I hope its annoying enough for everyone so youtube can be bullied back into compliance.
From the sound of it the ads are literally in the video itself, so they will be in downloaded videos as well. I can't think of a way for this to be countered besides manually removing them by hand and that's not practical.
Looks like that "this helps protect our community" BS is YT blocking access to vids by requiring login. That BS message then gets echoed on Invidious instances.
I think the "normie cattle" were "socially engineered" to accept advertising BS and lack of control through excess "smartphones" use. I've used internet since the early days and I never really liked mobile phones or "social media", so ads shoved at me isn't pleasant.
Nowadays soy hipsters call that crap "enhancing the user experience" or some "gaslighting" BS like that.
Bilibili is China's youtube and it sucks a bit less, but it recently started injecting random videos in the search results so it's going down the shitter too.
It is an attack on adblock. Google wouldn't have a logistical reason for doing this otherwise.
I found ads at start and then the text-only banner ads during videos completely fine. I use videos a lot for white noise when I sleep, so the "post roll" ads started and I had to use an ad-blocker. Nothing like drifting off and then getting a loud as fuck car ad.
This shit makes me want to do the exact opposite of Consuming their Product. I refuse to buy Toyota because of the number of times their loud as shit post-roll ads have woken me up.
The ways mentioned there are comparable to the 'old' youtube method. Twitch (AFAIK, I don't watch too much now) doesn't do in-stream ad insertion of this type. And you can see that in the methods on that page.
Done right, this is not detectable. You get a video, it's composited with the ads. The otehr approach mentioned of detecting differences (length, video hashes) and crowdsourcing the results is the most promising to me, but that's a lot of effort. I'd point out that hashing the displayed video might not help since differences in the render pipeline might cause changes that will break the hash. Then you'd be forced to run a separate software decoded chain and now I can't hear you over the CPU fan.
Louis Rossmann showed a while back that his entire catalog was retroactively changed to include midroll ads with the only way to change it to turn it off one by one for thousands of videos. At that point he just told people to watch him on Odysee. I just assume everything is Youtube at this point, fuck them.
