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Eventually we'll have AI going through youtube videos and cutting out the ads for us before we watch them. This isn't a war that youtube can win. People who don't want to see ads won't. For me right now, that means I won't be watching youtube.

*dynamically generated!

Otherwise you could probably fingerprint ad spots and submit them into a shared database. Like musicbrainz. For dynamic blocking of static content. Acoustic ID is probably enough and it would work with podcasts too!

I hate ads so much, I would totally volunteer to make this my hobby.

Even then, in the download case, there's an easy fix: download the video several times. The part that changes between versions is the ad

You'd probably throw some AI bullshit at this problem, in a race to the bottom. My hope would be for any "content creator" worth watching to be displeased with extremely low effort crap painted all over their production, so they ultimately get the message.

Advertisement simply sucks and is offensive. There is nothing to respect about any of it. People will always find ways around.

agree! its just not make sense to block user attention before or while watching the vids.

apparently what they are testing does move around enough to defeat sponsorblock