YouTube viewers will soon have to sit through even longer ads, with Google rolling out new 30-second unskippable spots on a popular app.

  • VibeSurgeon@piefed.social
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    2 days ago

    Those will not block YT ads.

    This is correct

    but YouTube ads are delivered directly into the video stream.

    This is false

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      2 days ago

      And the reason is that those ad-blockers are based on DNS block lists, and YouTube ads are served by the same servers that also serve videos.