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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.

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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

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