YouTube has been spotted testing server-side ads, which could pose a problem to ad blockers.

  • deadcade@lemmy.deadca.de
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    3 months ago

    Due to legal reasons, and to keep advertisers happy, YouTube is forced to display the “Advertisement” mark and a link to the advertisers website. With these, all the required information exists to allow an adblocker to skip any ads embedded in the video stream. No community flagging of ads is required.

    • dan@upvote.au
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      3 months ago

      YouTube is forced to display the “Advertisement” mark

      They’re forced to identify that it’s an ad, but they don’t have to do it in a machine-readable way. There’s many different approaches to show an “Advertisement” or “Sponsored” label that appears to users but thar blockers can’t easily find.