YouTube has found a new way to bypass ad blockers by integrating ads directly into video content via "server-side ad insertion," complicating the detection and blocking of ads. How will ad blockers respond?
  • @ngwoo@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1•9 months ago

    You’re forgetting the part where the video is coming from a cache server that isn’t designed to do this

    • @Blue_Morpho@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1•9 months ago

      They’re already appending ads to the front of the video. Instead of appending an ad at key frame 1 they append the ad at key frame 30,000.