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Damn, this could stop Invidious, Piped and Newpipe from being able to block ads.
It might take a lot more effort, but I don't think this will be the end. Google is required by law to label ads as such, giving these tools an opportunity to detect and skip them.
Is there a loophole where they could delay the ad marking like 5 seconds into a longer ad so you'd have to watch at least 5 seconds before an extension can detect it? Is the law specific about it having to be marked as an ad for the entire duration?
It will be after the inevitable lawsuit happens about 0.0002 seconds after they fully roll this out.
That would mean running an unmarked ad for five seconds, which would create an interesting legal question. But YouTube also buffers a good chunk of upcoming content, so there's enough upcoming video material to check.
What law (and jurisdiction) are you thinking of?
My understanding is that this would be covered with a blanket note on the page if it detects you aren't running Premium.
In Germany, you can't just show advertisement in a YouTube video without marking it. Same rules for sponsorship...
At the very least I'd say that UK/Germany would be a good bet. Though the idea of just plastering the note over the whole video might do the trick, considering that's what some German channels already do if they are sponsored to stay on the safe side.
You still aren't referencing a law. You are just saying you don't like it.
I ANAL and am not a lawyer but: There ARE laws about saying if a video contains paid advertisement. That is why basically every single video on youtube has the "contains sponsored content" tag.
There is no law saying that the specific seconds of the video need to be tagged. Which makes sense. It has been a minute since I watched network TV but I don't recall giant "AD" on my screen any time Hikaru Shida wasn't.
Germany has the "Medienstaatsvertrag" §8.3, which requires advertisements to be easily recognizable as such and also adequately separated through audio or visual cues.
I do recall a giant "Werbung" screen ahead of all a-blocs on TV.
Maybe not skip them, but instead play something else over top of them like another video you like, a music segment, or cat videos.
That could also make them okay with those existing, since they'll now play ads. Third party clients wouldn't be such a threat anymore to their bottomline, and people can get the privacy benefits of going through those proxies.
Exactly. This is why it will still be a threat to data hungry Google.
Lol this would mean that every website running a looped video in the bg will now haved ads play. Nice.
Once several different instances have downloaded the same video, they could share information on which segments are the same?
Ads would change for each download based on all the factors used in the automated ad auctions.
It will if the ads are different lengths for different viewers