SponsorBlock (and DeArrow)Jun 12, 2024

YouTube is currently experimenting with server-side ad injection. This means that the ad is being added directly into the video stream.

This breaks sponsorblock since now all timestamps are offset by the ad times.

For now, I set up the server to detect when someone is submitting from a browser with this happening and rejecting the submission to prevent the database from getting filled with incorrect submissions.

Show threadzaire the bored genderfuckJun 12, 2024

@sponsorblock

YouTube is currently experimenting with server-side ad injection

wow when/if this reaches me it might be time to break my youtube addiction and say goodbye to google

Show threadzaire the bored genderfuckJun 12, 2024
@sponsorblock according to this pinned thread on uBO's subreddit, youtube devs and adblock devs are in a pretty heated fight, like, right now
Show threadKay Ohtie 🔜 FWAJun 12, 2024
@soop @sponsorblock YouTube devs or YouTube managers/execs? Wild to think they've fired any dev who thinks it's scummy but does the work anyway and finally found the pool of devs who like ads
Show threaddrawnto 🟨⬜🟪⬛Jun 12, 2024

@KayOhtie
I am curious how this scummy. Youtube provides a service under the condition that users watch ads. They stop delivering ads seperatly and include them in the main content stream just as TV does.

I know ads can be accessibility issue. But being able to block them never was intended functionality. So where is the scum.

Show threadAlexander Sosedkin 
@drawnto @KayOhtie If your Internet Service Provider bans some of the Internet resources, it stops being an Internet Service Provider becomes a subset-of-the-Internet-provider and should be liable for false advertising because it's scummy. By the same logic, if a video hosting starts serving back videos that differ from what uploaded, it stops being a video hosting.
Jun 12, 2024 at 6:12pmWeb