| ▲ | callamdelaney 4 days ago |
| There would likely be huge processing overhead for splicing ads into a stream, right? |
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| ▲ | jack_pp 4 days ago | parent [-] |
| No, you can concatenate video segments with basically zero cost if the segments are encoded using the same encoding parameters and afaik youtube already re-encodes user videos. |
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| ▲ | dandellion 4 days ago | parent [-] | | What's to prevent ad-blockers from just skipping ahead when there's an ad playing? | | |
| ▲ | jack_pp 4 days ago | parent [-] | | Simply refuse to send original stream packets / ignore seek requests by the client until the ad duration has passed. Sure you could pause / mute / alt tab for that duration but the point is being annoying so people buy premium if they hate ads so much. |
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