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[–] gamermanh@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 10 months ago (1 children)

You can adblock twitch, I assume it wouldn't be too different from that

[–] Squiddlioni@kbin.melroy.org 24 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Twitch (and YouTube currently) switches to a new content stream to play an ad, which is easy to detect and block in an extension. If I understand the tech correctly, server side ads would be stitched into the playing content stream. The extension would have to know the content of the video to know that an ad is playing. There are some clever ways that might be caught (looking for spikes in bitrate, volume differences, etc), but none of that currently exists in the software in the OP.

[–] baggins@lemmy.ca 12 points 10 months ago (1 children)

You can click on the ad right? Detect that.

[–] abfarid@startrek.website 9 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Let's assume you can use that to determine the beginning of an ad, how do you know how much to skip?

[–] RedditRefugee69@lemmynsfw.com 14 points 10 months ago

Until the clickable part is gone.

[–] explodicle@sh.itjust.works 3 points 10 months ago

Couldn't I check how far along the video is?

[–] ziggurat@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

AFAIK currently, they just add black video into the YouTube video, and play an ad separately from the main video stream. That's what I've heard about people with working ad block who got this, there was just black video added to their YouTube video