downpunxx@fedia.io to Technology@lemmy.world · 5 months agoYouTube tests server-side ads to make your coveted blocker obsoletewww.yahoo.comexternal-linkmessage-square354fedilinkarrow-up10arrow-down10file-text
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minus-squarePeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·5 months agoWon’t this totally break deep linking to time codes?
minus-squarethatsTheCatch@lemmy.nzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·5 months agoWhile the overall video would be a different length, video players often don’t count the ads towards the media time. So the deep links should be okay
minus-squarePeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·5 months agoBut isn’t that because the ads aren’t part of the video? If players can tell when it’s an advert, presumably ad blockers could too. (Although presumably they have to tell the player to disable video scrubbing)
minus-squareSibbo@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·5 months agoThey can surely work around that… But if the client somehow knows where the ads are, the adblocker can skip them anyways. But maybe also deep linking is less important than ads to them.
Won’t this totally break deep linking to time codes?
While the overall video would be a different length, video players often don’t count the ads towards the media time. So the deep links should be okay
But isn’t that because the ads aren’t part of the video? If players can tell when it’s an advert, presumably ad blockers could too.
(Although presumably they have to tell the player to disable video scrubbing)
They can surely work around that… But if the client somehow knows where the ads are, the adblocker can skip them anyways.
But maybe also deep linking is less important than ads to them.