Can’t wait for ads to be grotesquely injected into any video on big streaming sites. If you don’t want reruns of Cheers to have distracting ads for Rings of Power you better spring for Prime Platinum. Even the heroes at uBlock Origin are going to have a hard time filtering out injected ads on some YouTuber’s bedroom wall.
Such a waste of R&D resources
Not when the only metric considered is ROI.
have to recoup the loss of diverting so much cost to AI data centers. thats why MS and google is jamming ai into everything they can put into, plus the increasing privacy invasion of storage email, so they can sell your data.
on a sidenote, during the early mid pandemic, amazon overbuilt thier warehouses/distribution centers and it costed them alot of money, JASSy never learned(he blamed Clark at the time who was in control of that area)
You see it first they’ll do it with carefully chosen surfaces…
Then I’ll just let AI do it randomly, Before long an incredibly emotional scene we’ll get a tasteless ad.
Who wants to be watching a dog get put down in Marley and me, only to be taken out of it when you see an advert on the back wall for… Idk… Trojan condoms?
The dogs gonna die anyway, why not fuck it before it gets cold?
Trojan, for all your animal fucking needs.
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I vaguely remember seeing ads on cliff faces etc in movies 15 years ago on television, but I think they stopped using them very quickly. Is this just a comeback of a failed test?
I’ve been ad-free for long enough at this point that I feel physically assaulted when I see one (at a friend’s house or whatever). It’s insane that we ever thought that was ok, and it’s become worse.
At this point, adblock is a survival measure. Piracy is self-defense. The first presidential candidate who campaigns on legalizing graffiti on billboards and mandating their eventual removal gets my vote. Burn it all.
Ads are against human rights. They manipulate your feelings and force you to make biased choices. They should be banned.
Companies/creatives/collectives need a way to show what they have to offer so it gets out there. Ads are far and away out of control, but their abolishment has it’s own problems (and people will advertise anyways, just stealth like they already are)
I’m the exact same way. Ads are revolting to me and usually make me angry to some extent, and it’s only getting worse. Like they literally cannot get enough. I paid for a Nvidia Shield just so I didn’t have to deal with the Fire sticks bullshit constant eye rape the second you turn on the thing.
innovation
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Capitalism is out of ideas
the next step is beaming it directly into your mind, like in futurama.
Corporate bootlickers: “Capitalism breeds innovation”
The innovation:
Behold, here is the screenshot of an example result from the included paper.
What do we have on a kitchen wall? But of course, a banner for an upcoming Streaming TV show.
Not only is it distracting and disgusting, but it starts normalising ads everywhere. Cigarettes were digitally removed so as to not set a bad example for kids. But letting them think that it’s perfectly normal to have glowing ads decorating the walls of your workplace is fiiiine.
Brb gonna buy some RGB ads from AliExpress to decorate my bathroom…
This looks astonishingly bad. A simple banner at the bottom would an improvement at this point.
It doesn’t appear they’re doing live recoding of the video, they mention how intensive that is, so the overlay is likely just some js fuckery is my guess. Also the setup is a cooking show filmed from a single camera angle with limited panning. I don’t think this will be hard to block and I don’t see it invading many videos just yet.
Its definitely just proof of concept for now, but it seems a grim, if inevitable, step in the war of ads vs adblockers.
If it’s not “baked in” to the video, then it seems like it should be trivial to detect and block the ad… Ugh, or else it’s literally new technological horrors beyond my comprehension, which is also very possible.
I doubt the latter, no one wants to do on the fly recoding video, it would absolutely eat up so much compute along with any semblance of a sustainable business model… Who am I kidding, the ai bubble is exactly this -.-
Ads are way past the point of pissing me off so much that i just block my ears and close my eyes until they go away.
Its fucking disrespectful to expect people to just be ok with having that shit shoveled into their eye sockets.
Amazon is a tool to me to get the things i want based on need for things that i am doing or to replace things that are broken. I am not window shopping there. I am not browsing things. I know what i need. I find the cheapest one with the highest rating and buy it.
Look at this guy, thinking he’s worthy of “respect”! The fucking temerity, the absolute gall of these poors!
🤣🤣🤣
Thought about that about 10 years ago. There was already patents on this
Stop using these shit ‘services’ then.
in existing video
So… A fucking overlay?
You should check the included PDF - contents are crazy. But the example result looks comically similar to an overlay.
Ah, a new Invention in the Asshole-Technology Department. Satan has a very special place in hell for the Managers who decided on this and he will place an order on this exact technology just for them to enjoy it non-stop. Forever.
This was in June 2023? Or am I missing something?
Wouldn’t be surprised if this was the garbage tech powering the NHL board ads.
They started doing it with cereal boxes and other products in Seinfeld reruns years ago.
That’s gross
Here’s something from 2025 and it’s even better, because AI!
Yo ho, yo ho, a pirate’s life for me! (Has been for years now)
There’s lots of YouTube stuff that isn’t popular enough for anyone to post
You do have plenty of options for downloading youtube videos directly without viewing them using tools like yt-dlp either in terminal or using one of its many GUI front ends. Apps like GrayJay and YT Revanced also have downloading youtube videos integrated, so no setup needed.
I have my own personal collection from my favorite creators :)
That’s still not a solution, because this sounds like they could embed it in the video file if they pursue it. And the basic issue is that you have tons of short videos you only watch once and all around it’s not really a good fit for torrents.
Regarding the short form content, that is a valid concern, but I would argue that’s more of an issue with the medium rather than with the tools available. However, regarding the embedded advertising, yt-dlp already has sponsorblock trimming integrated into the program (you can set a flag to remove detected segments from the finished video file), and extending this to encompass a databank of known circulating advertisements could go a long way.
Also, curated lists for certain categories could be maintained by groups. Hardware tutorials, for instance, rarely need constant updates and therefore a known good library could be downloaded once and circulated.
I think you’re missing what this is. They’re not adding sponsor segments.
They’re scanning the video, establishing where “free visual space” is, and then embedding advertising into that space. It becomes part of the video, not an intermission. You don’t cut a “time segment” to remove it, you have to cut a “space segment” to remove it. And then what do you fill it with?
There are certainly ways to mitigate it, but they’re not great.
You don’t cut it, that is the answer. Although I suspect that a foss or community scanning tool could also be created with that same advertising databank to try and redraw that portion of scene without the embedded ad (although that likely would have to be a generated guess).
It is not perfect. That is for sure, but why throw in the towel? If anything, start ripping now and prepare for the future.
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