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.
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.
I can’t even watch sports in real time. I have to let it buffer so I can fast forward through breaks and such.
Still a lot of ads on uniforms and all over the stadium, but it’s mostly the audio (that is often louder than what you’re watching) and the break in continuity for commercial breaks that pisses me off the most.
What’s worse is this even makes attending the game in person miserable. I know many very passionate college football fans who show up hours before the game to hang out with friends, and then more times then not end up leaving the game itself early. Why? Because the game itself is a drag. If a game is televised, they add extra breaks to the game to accommodate ads. The game gets stretched out from something of reasonable length to some absurd 3-4 hour long slog. People then only stick around if the winner remains unclear. If the games were a more reasonable 2 hour length, with more engaging and constant action, then most folks would stay to the end.
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.
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)
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)
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!
and this is why im watching the mighty nein and hazbin on jellyfin
They edited all the movie dialog to be woke/ now they’re gonna edit all the graphics to grab more money. :-D
What is ‘woke’? Forgive me, I’ve been on the internet for years, but I still haven’t met someone who can succinctly define what it means. I keep getting these conflicting, confusing definitions.
What movie dialogue did they edit?
Rereading that, it’s not super clear who “they” is referring to. Here is what I was trying to say: In the past, some of our media has been revised to make it politically correct, books, film, and other media. I don’t agree with this, but I do think some of those people have good intentions. Putting ads on cultural artifacts (like our media) retroactively is whole new level of evil: supervillain evil. It’s like “Stonehenge, brought to you by CocaCola and Nestle” or “Skip the line at the Great Pyramid with Amazon Prime”. One is motivated by a misguided desire to protect everyone’s feefees. The other one is just pure greed.
You never answered the question. Can you give some clear examples to support anything at all you’re saying?
Han shooting first in the OG Star Wars vs shooting secind in the remasters is the first, major change to be more PC that comes to mind. There are tons of classic films that have had re-makes or re-releases that have done what that user is claiming.
I’m not a fan of that change, but I don’t really see it as an attempt to be more ‘politically correct’.
Han Solo was going to marry Leia, and you look back and say, “Should he be a cold-blooded killer?” Because I was thinking mythologically—should he be a cowboy, should he be John Wayne? And I said, “Yeah, he should be John Wayne.” And when you’re John Wayne, you don’t shoot people [first]—you let them have the first shot. It’s a mythological reality that we hope our society pays attention to."
I think Lucas is wrong, because even if he shoots first Han is being threatened with kidnap and death, so he’s not a cold-blooded murderer to shoot the guy threatening him. But unless we’re rolling all ideas of heroism and morality into woke/PC then I don’t think that example works at all.
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I wish Amazon wasn’t so decentralized, it makes it so hard to just burn it all down.
We’re burning down the wrong Amazon
This is the inevitable next step. YouTube is looking at doing this too, where ads would be served as part of the same stream id as the content (eg your page wouldn’t refresh and the ad would be cut into the video itself) but they have to make the player work with changing states without refreshing the page across all platforms and it puts a lot more stress on CDNs (plus sponsor block would still be a method to defeat, although not as effective).
But integration of the ads more deeply into the content has always been the goal. That’s why product placement exists. The fault of commercials is that people can simply disengage - go to the bathroom, talk to friends, fuck around on phone, etc. but if the ad is part of the content they have to see it if they want to engage with it. You lose the ability to shill as effectively (unless you do the youtuber paid segment thing, which makes your ads programmatically skippable again eg sponsorblock) but you gain an ad that is practically unblockable unless the show is essentially censored.
Advertisers are scum. Destroy all advertisers. Admen are the cancer that destroy society. Every cool thing has advertisers encroach in on it once people realize how cool it is and then they destroy it - radio, tv, newspapers, books, the internet, literally any public space, etc. if you work in advertising you should be ashamed of yourself and your parents definitely feel like they went wrong somewhere
Bill Hicks Recorded live at the Dominion Theatre, London, 1992:
By the way, if anyone here’s in advertising or marketing… kill yourself. [audience approval] Thank you. Just a little thought… Kill yourself. Seriously though, if you are [in advertising/marketing], do [kill yourself — laughter] … There’s no rationalisation for what you do and you’re Satan’s little helpers, OK? Kill yourself, seriously. You’re the ruiner of all things good, seriously… No, this is not a joke. You’re going: “there’s gonna to be a joke coming”. There’s no fucking joke coming. You are Satan’s spawn filling the world with bile and garbage. You are fucked and you are fucking us. Kill yourself. It’s the only way to save your soul. Kill yourself. [applause, laughter] … I know all the marketing people are going, “he’s doing a joke”… There’s no joke here whatsoever. Suck a tail pipe, hang yourself, borrow a gun from a Yank friend. I don’t care how you do it. Rid the world of your evil fucking machinations.
I know what all the marketing people are thinking right now too, “Oh, you know what Bill’s doing, he’s going for that anti-marketing dollar. That’s a good market, he’s very smart.” [laughter] Oh man, I’m not doing that, you fucking evil scumbags. “Ooh, you know what Bill’s doing now, he’s going for the righteous indignation dollar. That’s a big dollar. A lot of people are feeling that indignation. We’ve done research. Huge market. He’s doing a good thing.” Goddammit, I’m not doing that, you scumbags. Quit putting a goddamm dollar sign on every fucking thing on this planet! “Ooh, the anger dollar. Huge. Huge in times of recession. Giant market. Bill’s very bright to do that.” God, I’m just caught in a fucking web. “Ooh, the trapped dollar, big dollar, huge dollar. Good market. Look at our research. We see that many people feel trapped. If we play to that and then separate them into the trapped dollar…” God, how do you live like that? I bet you sleep like fucking babies at night, don’t you? “What did you do tonight honey?” “Oh, we made ah, we made ah, arsenic ah, childhood food now, goodnight.” [lies down and snores] “Yeah, we just said you know is your baby really too loud? You know?” [snores] “Yeah, it’ll… you know the mums will love it.” [snores] [stands up] Sleep like fucking children, don’t you? This is your world isn’t it?
roger sterling was pretty cool
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.
Inb4 someone writes a program and calls it AdblockAI. It gets trained on the shape of corporate logos and on the fly in-paints those regions of the screen to remove the logos.
On that same note, how about AR glasses that put black bars over ads and logos you encounter in real life so companies don’t get to subliminally advertise at you.
How about ar glasses that put a bag over my head so no one knows I have ar glasses
This was my first and only idea for AR goggles and I think somebody has already made that mock up if you search online that will actually do that
When these get deployed, they’ll finally implement eyeball tracking into the ads. Some smart TVs have in built cameras, and this could easily be one the norm. The companies so far have been too afraid to use it, but the tech has existed for years at this point. Technically, there’s nothing stopping YouTube from just requiring users to have an iris tracking camera enabled. And this would defeat a smart glasses AI ad filter. I suppose you could maybe have a screen on the front that projected fake eyeballs towards the camera, but maybe they could then defeat that.
Or, more likely, they’ll just lobby Congress to ban ad blockers and and blocking devices.
Fast forward 100 years, and we’ll be working on anti-ad glasses that counteract the Meta glasses that counteract the anti-ad glasses that counteract the Elon eye implants. 😔
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!
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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.
Ok
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.
Thought about that about 10 years ago. There was already patents on this
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.
