this post was submitted on 25 Jul 2024
701 points (98.7% liked)
Technology
58073 readers
3072 users here now
This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
Our Rules
- Follow the lemmy.world rules.
- Only tech related content.
- Be excellent to each another!
- Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
- Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
- Politics threads may be removed.
- No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
- Only approved bots from the list below, to ask if your bot can be added please contact us.
- Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed
Approved Bots
founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
Legally, YouTube have to detect if ads were blocked and and mark the impression as non-billable. They can't charge advertisers for blocked ads.
They can only tell that something is blocked because the ad wasn't loaded from a server. If it's not loaded, then they can't count it as "viewed."
If the ad is just blacked over, it is still loaded, and they wouldn't know.
If it became a common thing, they'd have to add detection for it. Not necessarily to stop people doing it, but to ensure advertisers aren't charged for invalid impressions. Practically every major ad network has adblocking detection; they just don't always make it obvious (e.g. they might silently log it).
If they were effectively able to detect it they would be able to block you watching the rest of the video.
Well they also infest the client side since they likely developed the main part of your web browser, so they can still know there's a black cover in the DOM.
I already put my phone down on my desk and turn the audio down whenever an ad pops up, they can't tell it isn't being viewed.