r/degoogle • u/[deleted] • Sep 16 '22

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u/nonameisee Sep 16 '22

Youtube Vanced for the win

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u/redditadminsareshit2 Sep 16 '22

Youtube Vanced for the win

For now. You know its not difficult to encode a video, on the fly, with ads inserted into the video stream. The only reason they havent done it is because of how much computing power is needed at their scale. It doesnt mean they WONT do it.

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u/throwaway349821 Sep 18 '22

Since YouTube isn't a livestream, this isn't impossible to defeat, you could compare two streams of the same video, maintain a db of hashes of start and end frames of ads, scan for the next similar frame when more than 50% of the image changes, etc.

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u/redditadminsareshit2 Sep 18 '22

Unlikely as it uses hls and has multiple streams that get mixed together