• AbeilleVegane@beehaw.org
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    1 year ago

    I barely know how any of this works, but couldn’t Google just decide to not send video content on YouTube until X number of seconds have elapsed, so having ad blockers would block ad content, but not make it faster to see the video?

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      1 year ago

      They probably could, but I think the risk of directly affecting the normal user experience is too high. That would for example mean that preloading videos will be trickier, and that there is a high chance that there will be a 3 seconds of silence between the ad and the content.

    • Tlaloc_Temporal@lemmy.ca
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      1 year ago

      Still won’t help, I would gladly wait 60s to avoid having scams and car salesmen shout at me for 10s.