Ad blocker blocker blocker blocker…..

Pøør sister!

It's like playing Uno No Mercy, with only reverse-draw-10 cards

But there is something to be said about superliminal messaging as well.

Instead of trying to subtly influence people to watch your movie, why not tell them directly to watch your movie instead?

Sneaky upvote!

If they had infinite resources, they wouldn't need to worry about adblockers.

Sure but as long as there is a least one dedicated bearded dude hidden in a dark underground room behind his screen, they will be defeated. No matter how much they spent on the new technology. What I mean is that devs might burn out, they will still be replaced by others. And we get such people faster than youtube is able to burn them out

They don't need to actually unblock everything. They just need to convince their advertisers and stock holders they are.

This is actually one of very few valid cases for an LLM, to help sponsorblock determine ad segments by analyzing the word choice and speech patterns in segments of the video.

YouTube Revanced already has a blocker for sponsor segments embedded in the video.

No, you just need to skip the ad. Sponsorblock has been working for years now, solving pretty much the same problem

It's a big ad It's a big ad Fooooooorrr beer https://youtu.be/_wM2c3WtDjQ?si=7G_HBu8FMGMZpdoe

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At that point i will either have to use an ai tool to scrub the filth out

Or

Consider if i really need whatever content is within it and touch some grass instead.

The same thing that happened with sponsored segments.

With yt-dlp? Skip them manually.

Like, my main issue with ads is all the tracking they do. If they add non-targeted ads to the video file I downloaded, whatever, I'll just fast forward through that part of the video.

Are you familiar with Jellyfin?

https://jellyfin.org/

If you can set up a server of this then its as easy as making the library folder the output folder for yt-dlp

https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp

I didnt even have to write me own script. I gave chatgpt a notepad with channel urls and just told it to write me code to load these urls one by one and download the Last 2 videos. (Trust me you dont want to accidentally download a whole channel). Yt dlp can maintain a log of sort so videos aren't downloaded more then once.

I run this script on a schedule and delete the video when i am done with it. Nice and clean. I can also recommend trying to run an invididious instance for general video browsing but mine took some twiddling to setup right.

https://invidious.io/

BlocX

The new timeline reboot:

• Blocker: The beginning
• The Blocker Returns
• The Dark Blocker
• Blocker Homecoming
• Rise of the Blockers
• Dawn of the Blockers
• War of the Blockers
• Kingdom of the Blockers

And to bring it full circle:

• Planet of the Blockers

Another way to think about it... YouTube has huge amounts of compute resources, but per user it's an extremely small amount. Your phone has orders of magnitude more power to dedicate to you than YouTube does. Collectively, we have more processing power than YouTube.

Depending on your country, these ads still need to be marked clearly as such. And for accessibility reasons, that mark will always be machine readable.

So blockers will be fine.

Sponsor block gives me a nice list of options to do in that case: skip automatically, show a skip button or ignore. All based on what type of interruption there is.

Yeah I've seen it on twitch. We are joeover.

Wow, these guys are even more awesome than I thought then...

From what I've read, YouTubers don't get paid from views that use an ad-blocker, but they still do from views that have premium, so my justification is that I'm helping support the creators I like. I'm also paying for Nebula, which some of the documentary-style creators upload to as well now.