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Re:YouTube ads in Safari: you see them now, will you see the... by ziml77 on Wednesday May 19, 2021 @03:58PM (#27213693)
SponsorBlock doesn't detect sponsored segments. Users mark the segments and submit them to a database.

If Google did try to automate it, you can be sure that people would just move to integrating the sponsorship into the content. Those are the worst kind of videos and I don't want to encourage more of them.

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