• southsamurai@sh.itjust.works
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    16 days ago

    Which will work until they roll it out fully and someone counters it with some new ad blocking. Might be more complicated than current options, but it’ll be there.

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      16 days ago

      Honestly, at the risk of sounding like I’m in marketing, I have a feeling it may involve AI (or, what society calls ML/DL these days).

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        16 days ago

        Oh, for sure, or maybe some statistical method that doesn’t require that much processing. I don’t doubt it’ll work, though. Google is wasting their time and energy with this.

    • fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com
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      16 days ago

      Easy, just do it like old school MythTV commercial detection. Buffering will be annoying, though, as you’d need to load the video far enough in advance to skip.