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[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

Did you read the article? The article shows a post from Sponsorblock and it specifically states that they turned off sponsor block submissions on effected browsers since they can't be reliable with the new ad delivery method

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

Wasn't sure which one to use, thanks

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago (2 children)

This breaks the current SB implementation, but if the ad duration is known and consistent across the userbase then it will fix itself as users tag videos with the "new" timestamps.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago

That only works if the ads served are all the same or at least same time length. Which is very unlikely.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, but the article didn't say anything about consistent durations and spacing. It might be the case, but I have no idea how to find that out.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Consistent duration can be assumed, because that's how advertising works. The 15-second spot is still the standard.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

I mean it might be, or they could decide to deliver 30 second ads to people they think are more likely to watch and 15s to ones they don't. I don't know enough about this implementation, for all I know they could have offset it by a few seconds because of Sponsorblock. Seems like they'd do anything to try to push more ads so who really knows at this point?