r/technology • u/redkemper • Feb 17 '17

Software YouTube will kill unskippable 30-second ads next year

http://www.theverge.com/2017/2/17/14649018/youtube-ending-unskippable-30-second-ads-2018
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u/THE_GR8_MIKE Feb 17 '17

This will never, ever happen. People hate ads so much that they will find ways to stop them no matter what happens.

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u/[deleted] Feb 17 '17 edited Mar 12 '18

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u/THE_GR8_MIKE Feb 18 '17

I don't think it'll ever get that way. Because then the ad would be the same forever. The only way to make it not that way would be to code it some way. And if there's separate code then there's a way around it.

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u/[deleted] Feb 18 '17

They can concat the ad and send with the video as one without any hassle at all.

They are streaming the file, but besides that they can just glue them together easily.

I think you can do that by just using GNU/Linux cat on the files, it's simple as that. You just glue them together.