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And who’s stop an extension taking that stream and then filtering out the ads from that stream? More difficult but someone will implement it if YT takes that route.

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I'm curious how to make this unavoidable. Something along the lines of of `randomAmountOfSecondsForAds + minimumNoAdsSeconds` per session token. Scrolling on the stream would keep showing the ad. I suppose someone could generate a bunch of sessions to bypass this, but could this be detected?

For the economists out there: are ads the only economically viable way to maximize user count while providing no cost to said users?

Thinking about this, given the ads are shown randomly, generating sessions doesn't work. It makes the ads unavoidable.

It basically already exists: https://sponsor.ajay.app/

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