YouTube’s anti-ad blocking test gets even pushier with a new timer
YouTube’s anti-ad blocking test gets even pushier with a new timer
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Up next: An AI-enabled Web Browser extension which
- mutes the YouTube ads and overlays it with cute cat videos
- clicks the "skip" button for you
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And then* YouTube adds captcha to the skip button.
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And then the AI script retaliates by identifying and switching to matching videos on PeerTube, whilst also learning your viewing habits. A premium version offers a subscription which pays third world workers to complete the captcha on your behalf.
Then Google users WEI to kill the extension.
Then someone releases a VPS which runs Chrome and supplies the whole thing by Remote Desktop, with a client side app that integrates the behaviour...
(just thinking of how it could go.)
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Just mirror every YouTube video ever created and we won't get any ads. /s
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I know you jest, but it's not beyond the realm of possibility for some peer to peer system to exist, similar to bittorrent, which could distribute the load across viewers. Most people have half decent internet these days. This imaginary extension could recognise the YouTube video URL, check it's DHT to see if anyone else has it, and if not it could capture the YouTube video and redistribute it to the next person who looked up the same URL. Stale videos could be deleted after a time.
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So, basically torrenting but for YT videos. Pretty interesting on the technology side on how you'd handle unstable seeders, because after all it's streamed content, which is different from your regular content you'd get.
Now I realized YT videos buffer anyway.
One could even dedicated a set amount of disk space for sole use of downloading videos automatically that server says they should, which could be algorithmically decided whether it's needed due to high demand (need more seeds) or sort of archiving.
Could be an interesting project, a decentralized youtube "archive".
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