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Re:Many major websites are taking silent anti-ad-blocking me... by username223 on Thursday December 28, 2017 @09:21PM (#16027026)
> I like how many YouTube channels take 30 seconds out of a 10 minute video to talk about some company's product that might be of interest to their audience.

I like how many podcasts have ads with predictable lengths, so I can skip them with the "fast forward" button without hearing them. NPR is 4 skips; Slate is 8-10. It seems like "deep learning" should have figured this out by now.

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Re:Many major websites are taking silent anti-ad-blocking me... by Washuu on Thursday December 28, 2017 @10:36PM (#16027303)
TV scene pirates use machine learning to automatically cut advertisement breaks from ripped shows before they get uploaded.
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Re:Many major websites are taking silent anti-ad-blocking me... by briffle on Friday December 29, 2017 @01:15AM (#16027958)
The newest version of Plex DVR software can cut commercials out of your recorded video too
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Re:Many major websites are taking silent anti-ad-blocking me... by dawnerd on Friday December 29, 2017 @05:30AM (#16028739)
Only because they’re using comskip. Don’t give Plex credit for simply setting a post process script. It’s also not very reliable as you need to tweak the settings per channel/show and so on.
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