• Saledovil@sh.itjust.works
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    5 months ago

    A funny thing. I used the “Ad Nauseam” adblocker for a time. This adblocker’s gimmick is that it clicks the ad while hiding it from the user to cause monetary damage to the advertiser. It also collects the ads and displays them in an “add vault”. I did browse the add vault from time to time.

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      5 months ago

      Also. We have ai now. I don’t see it being so difficult to train a model that can recognize ads.

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        5 months ago

        Yes. What I’m also wondering though, why hasn’t Youtube started injecting ads directly into the video feed earlier?

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          5 months ago

          afaik it’s just hideously expensive to do, they have to splice it into every single version of the video and it’s just a massive headache