YouTube viewers will soon have to sit through even longer ads, with Google rolling out new 30-second unskippable spots on a popular app.

YouTube viewers will soon have to sit through even longer ads, with Google rolling out new 30-second unskippable spots on a popular app.

  • VibeSurgeon@piefed.socialEnglish
    312·
    3 days ago

    Those will not block YT ads.

    This is correct

    but YouTube ads are delivered directly into the video stream.

    This is false

      • VibeSurgeon@piefed.socialEnglish
        1·
        9 minutes ago

        Sure, but that can be said about almost anything.

        Still, I’d be surprised if they went the route of embedding ads into the stream, in part because of measurability/skipability/etc. It’s definitely not out of the question, but I think we’re still ways to go before we get there.

        And even then, tools like yt-dlp would probably be able to apply some heuristics to figure out which segments are foreign to the stream and slice them out that way. Blocking yt-dlp would require DRM, which in turn requires changing the transcoding pipeline in a pretty non-trivial way. I also doubt they would willingly go this route.

    • Scrollone@feddit.itEnglish
      15·
      3 days ago

      And the reason is that those ad-blockers are based on DNS block lists, and YouTube ads are served by the same servers that also serve videos.