A lot of people are saying this isn’t possible, theyre wrong. It’s called “Server Side Ad Insertion (SSAI)” and tldr it places the ads directly in the video itself. One of the popular streaming services uses SSAI, another uses SGAI. Theyre both something the CDN must implement alongside the client.

The technical explanation: SSAI, at least with HLS, places the ad segments within the media playlist. This means there is no additional and easy to block call to the ad server to ask for ads (that’s Server Guided Ad Insertion, SGAI). SGAI places markers where ads need to go in the media playlist, and the client asks the server for some ads to place there.

There’s also CSAI which is fully client side (the client decides where to place ads and how many) but I’d like to doubt youtube uses this. Doesn’t seem very smart.

Even if, lets say, youtube baked the ads into the content segments, it wouldn’t solve anything. There will still be markers and metadata to find where they are (the client needs these to notify ad partners you watched the ad, and to display the yellow “ad” markers, and to display a timer) which can be used to skip them client-side with an extension.

Overall YouTube probably won’t win because there’s always something to do to bypass ads. Some methods are easier to bypass than others, but they’re all enforced client-side in the end. The only thing they could possibly do to have even a fraction of a chance would be to block you from getting the next content segments until the ad duration has passed in real-time. That’s a last resort, however, because that will likely hurt QoS and client stability. There’s a reason it isn’t already done. Don’t forget, also, the developers who work on this stuff don’t like ads either. Nobody is going out of their way to prevent ad blocking beyond what the execs want, and the execs don’t know what they want.

Do note that although I specify HLS there is likely little to no difference with other streaming tech, I just want to be clear about my experience.

Yeah it really sucked, slightly muffled by the mask and no lips to read.

The ways they try to justify ad blockers as their god given right is equally frustrating. It’s okay to use an ad blocker (and you should!). Please stop acting personally insulted when sites then attempt to make your ad blocker useless, it’s just how things go.

Advertising is horrible

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Yeah I mean closed captions, oops

As someone who was born with unilateral moderate->severe hearing loss, I can read lips. The experience is likely unique across the hearing loss spectrum / time of onset, and some people may be able to learn that skill themselves, idk. I’m sure 100% deaf people experience it in their own interesting way.

To me it’s not anything I conciously do, and it’s not something that’s really that visible to me. The fact I can still hear, but not as well as people with normal hearing affects how it works. The way I’d explain it for me is kinda like this:

Sometimes I can’t hear enough to tell what is being said, one way my brain naturally deals with this is by reading the speakers lips and using that to help filter and understand what its hearing. I can kinda apply it as a skill, like with muted videos and people I can’t hear because of distance, but it doesn’t work that well and isn’t worthy of trust.

So for me it’s more of a sense, not something I do or think about. However, its basically the least effort way to understand speech that isn’t clear enough. This is in contrast to another way I/my brain goes about it, which is trying really hard to figure out what it just heard.

To answer your last question, yes it is likely a mistake. Theres a youtube channel about that whole concept, called bad lip reading or something. They dub over video with audio that matches the lips well enough.

To put my experience into perspective, which might work for at least a few people: closed captions subtitles. I mean… I’ve never asked anyone else but yall arent just reading them, right? To me they just clarify the speech subconsciously (for the most part), rather than me reading them off the screen when I need them. Captions are weird… Who knows if this is accurate to my experience or similar to others.

What? It doesn’t take crypto to get rid of DRM? What’s needed is the ability for authors to sell their books DRM free, and that does not require and definitely would never scale with crypto.

For the last year (at least for me and people I know) Google Maps has been suggesting batshit insane alternate routes and then conninuously suggesting you turn around and take the already longer route.

I went on a road trip, it was not uncommon to see it suggest an alternate route with +2 or more hours. Then it would suggest you turn around and follow said route for 30 minutes (with the delay increasing as you drive further away from the alternate).

There’s something weird with gmaps but it still works. I wonder if its some kind of test to see if people will just blindly follow alternates for some goal of theirs.

Any dev who pretends Python 2 doesn’t exist should probably look around a bit more. Damn legacy code.

You got me pretty good ;P

Damn there are literally cats?

The italics meant to illustrate some sarcasm, its meant to play off Niko’s protests that they are not a cat. Given it comes up multiple times in the game, it seems like an obvious joke to make.

I mean they literally created Lemmy to move their communist bullshit off of Reddit. lemmy.ml is the result of that (on top of lemmy itself).

Shame such dumbasses created such a nice thing. At least we can now enjoy making fun of them.

Hey now, there are clearly no cats in Oneshot! Just pancake lovers that may or may not resemble a cat.

Saying it isnt worth up to a 25% reduction is a stupid argument in general.

Lets also not forget about all the money and resources spent on cars and their infrastructure.

Up to a 25% reduction in emissions at minimum is enough to be worthy of action.

What’s funny is you’re the only one who said “you moron”

It’s really cool how a lot of the tech that powers the Internet today has a looong legacy. The longevity is astounding!

I watched someone set up their own dial-up ISP on youtube, they were able to consume the modern net with it as well.

I think lacking reading comprehension and arguing in bad faith are worse red flags than the one you’ve painted.

Not this again, really just shitting on Autistic people by saying stuff like this.

Bet you thought you were super smart with that one

Awww shit bois the huge country with plenty of money cannot afford to do it