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I give it 5 hours from mass release before ad blockers catch up.
A bit longer if they play their cards right. If we have to move to a detect, buffer and skip model, it'll be quite a while.
There are already addons to skip in-stream adds for when people do those sponsor segments. It just crowd sources the most consistently skipped parts and does it automatically.
Timing and length of ads won't be consistent between users so this approach doesn't work.
Depends how wide the range of ads is, if its a set amount/month then you could use the same method to pretty quickly identify which segments of data are ads and automatically cut them out wherever they occur.