• illi@lemm.ee
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    5 months ago

    From what I read, this also breaks sponsorblock - as the ads are part of the video, it moves the time stamps of the video so it makes it not correct. The ads will also change I imagine so idk if sponsorblock will be a solution.

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      5 months ago

      So videos that reference timestamps in their own video won’t work? And comments that reference a timestamp won’t work?

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          5 months ago

          Wouldn’t that need to be done via some kind of API for cross-platform compatibility? An API which could be exploited to detect ad segments?

          • Jeena@piefed.jeena.net
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            5 months ago

            No, they would just do that internally in their own code, why would they need an API for that?

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              5 months ago

              So that the timestamp adjustment can be propagated via uploader or user comments across YouTube clients on all platforms… i.e. to avoid having to hardcode each adjustment for each ad on each video on every client