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Re:Researchers fear a scenario in which smart speakers feed ... by rubatuga on Wednesday June 16, 2021 @04:53AM (#27526368)
Yeah it's called YouTube Premium. Think like a Netflix subscription but for YouTube. Google probably A/B tested different versions of YouTube to see which one generated more YouTube Premium subscribers. It turns out that the higher $$$-generating code (i.e. driving Premium subscriptions) is the one that bypasses Safari's adblocking engine.
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Re:Researchers fear a scenario in which smart speakers feed ... by Cthulhu_ on Wednesday June 16, 2021 @05:29AM (#27526572)
Is there guaranteed no ads with Premium or do they still put ads in there? I mean some streaming services and of course the old paid cable TV did.
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Re:Researchers fear a scenario in which smart speakers feed ... by tsimionescu on Wednesday June 16, 2021 @07:27AM (#27527270)
Guaranteed no ads injected by YT, but don't forget that already most popular YT content includes ads inside the video, as a small bit of informercial style content somewhere in the middle of the video.
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Re:Researchers fear a scenario in which smart speakers feed ... by shpx on Wednesday June 16, 2021 @01:36PM (#27531217)
On desktop there's the SponsorBlock extension, which skips them using a crowdsourced list of timestamps.

https://github.com/ajayyy/SponsorBlock

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Re:Researchers fear a scenario in which smart speakers feed ... by omginternets on Wednesday June 16, 2021 @07:50AM (#27527443)
I remember when cable TV used to be like that...
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Re:Researchers fear a scenario in which smart speakers feed ... by asdff on Wednesday June 16, 2021 @01:30PM (#27531140)
At least you can scrub past those for now
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Re:Researchers fear a scenario in which smart speakers feed ... by rubatuga on Wednesday June 16, 2021 @05:56AM (#27526707)
No ads at all. Now, wanna know what antitrust means? It means changing your YouTube policy so that instead of competing with just some random hobo PeerTube, they now compete in the same space as Netflix, HBO, and Amazon Prime. It means an entrant to compete with YouTube must now be a mega corporation.

Of course all above is just my opinion.

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