SponsorBlock (and DeArrow) (@sponsorblock@fosstodon.org)
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YouTube is currently experimenting with server-side ad injection. This means that the ad is being added directly into the video stream. This breaks sponsorblock since now all timestamps are offset by the ad times. For now, I set up the server to detect when someone is submitting from a browser with this happening and rejecting the submission to prevent the database from getting filled with incorrect submissions.

cross-posted from: https://lazysoci.al/post/14579120

YouTube is currently experimenting with server-side ad injection. This means that the ad is being added directly into the video stream.

This breaks sponsorblock since now all timestamps are offset by the ad times.

For now, I set up the server to detect when someone is submitting from a browser with this happening and rejecting the submission to prevent the database from getting filled with incorrect submissions.

  • unknowing8343
    31·
    5 months ago

    I am expecting that is exactly the point. I don’t think they’ll win, tho. We’ll find a way around it.

    • themurphy@lemmy.ml
      7·
      5 months ago

      uBlock might be out at some point, but modified APKs will probably live forever.

      Pirates, aaargh… always finds a way.