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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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