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[-] PaX@hexbear.net 31 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Ad content recognition system maybe - if you see an ad, click a button and it goes into a database or if your browser sees an ad in the database it skips it

Even if it can't be skipped I would prefer the stream be blacked out and muted rather than be subjected to psychological warfare

[-] tactical_trans_karen@hexbear.net 22 points 5 months ago

I would prefer the stream be blacked out and muted rather than be subjected to psychological warfare

I genuinely feel psychological distress from YouTube ads, wish I could sue for damages.

[-] Llituro@hexbear.net 18 points 5 months ago

ok, i think that's probably the only kind of thing that could do it at all. that sort of user-reported database is how some ad skippers already work. agreed on preferring nothing to psychological warfare.

i look forward to the bizarro-world arms race where google gets more and more sophisticated techniques to make 100000 unrecognizably different versions of the same dog food commercial that the databases won't be able to recognize.