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Next iteration of this will be ads that won't be "done" and give way to the actual content until you have looked at them, blinking at a normal pace, following the ad action (faces, etc.).

And answered some questions about the and, even :)

Nice distopia but not realistic imho. Just compare the percent of sites that display ads and the one that try to permitt accessing the actual content if detecting an adblocker. I think the future of ads will be making the user actually want to see the ads/ making the user not recognize the ad as an ad.

Well, specifically for YouTube (what we were discussing above), you already can't skip some ads, while others you can only skip after some seconds of reproduction. Some ads even cut into the middle of the content, just as in TV commercials. And as it is part of the content delivery mechanism, my browser adblocker can't deal with it.

For the moment, youtube-dl works, but it is not ux friendly if you want to browse unknown or related videos instead of downloading a specific one / list.

I agree with the fear that the ocurrence of sponsored content, "educational ads", in-video placement and all those sneakier versions of ads, that you sometimes don't even notice, will grow a lot in the near future.

> you already can't skip some ads, while others you can only skip after some seconds of reproduction

Both of which[1] got me to install an ad blocker and back that up with a pihole at home. There'll always be a way past ads, or an alternative to the site they're on. It's a big internet

[1] Actually it was more the ad volume that did it. I'm alright with ads if they're not ridiculously frequent but when they're twice as loud as the video I'm watching I'm gonna get rid of them

This already exists, it’s called “Solve Media”, a video ad disguised as a captcha where the answer is the brand’s name or slogan, embedded in the middle of the video (in a static font and position, so it completely sucks as a captcha).

Nice project, but kinda projects a "not so good" future.

This level of image detection could be expoilted heavily from companies, potentially introducing inconvenience and security issues.

So you have to keep neck straight to watch the video? I like the concept but still i don't see it as something that would be useful for the user.

Yes, unfortunately the FaceDetector API can't recognise your face if you tilt your head a bit :/ I hope this will get better with time.

Wasn’t this an episode of Electric Dreams? So we are going full Phillip K Dick now.

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