Or intentionally written in that way so you click on it
What we need are some ethical choices for stuff like smart devices, things that don’t need “cloud connection” just so your phone can turn your lights on.
IKEA's smart stuff is the best out there for the average consumer. Manages to be something that "just works" whilst also being fully local, no cloud connection, uses open standard APIs and provides firmware updates as downloads.
Again, most people do not know what IPTV or a VPN is. They do not care to find out, their brain doesn't spend any amount of time thinking about these things. If you're not into cars you don't wonder if there's a way for your car to go faster or sound or look cooler. You get into your car and you drive it to your destination. This is the same concept.
The mainstream user doesn't care enough to install an adblocker
Well what do you use to watch TV?
I think the ad black box is where it will end up. A lot of people would probably not see that as much better than having an ad at that point, though. They don't even really need to make something impenetrable, they just need to keep breaking adblock so much so that people no longer see it as reliable and adblock developers grow increasingly tired of rewriting. So far, I can only recall a handful of times where adblock has straight up stopped working on YouTube.
If they wanted an almost impossible skip they could bake ads directly into the video stream as its served to you. Facebook already has ads that are basically impossible to remove, and that's without the advantage of serving video content.
I'd say this isn't an arms race. If Google wanted to end adblockers on YouTube right now they could. There is more at play here.
They'll just keep pushing it through until it gets by. I don't wanna be cynical but we're running out of options for stopping them
I'm sure this will be an issue with displaying the files rather than the data being gone forever. Still a massive fuck up
Yeah but replace("guy", "ethnically ambiguous guy") is different than does this sentence reference any possible specific character
The best you'd get out of that would be a delay of up to the length of the ad before your video would play