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Out of order requesting of segments could be detected as well as faster requests. This would at least lead to a waiting time for the length of the ad.

Exactly

Ah yes that makes a lot of sense. Googles war on adblockers seems really expensive but we don't know the numbers maybe it's still cheaper.

I've read in that thread that there are already ad blockers for twitch too but I haven't looked up how they work or how twitch inserts the ads.

Sponsorblock works with static timestamps provided by users. This would not work if the ads are inserted at randomized times.

I am not for ads but what is so difficult about adding them to the video stream. This should make adblockers useless since they can't differentiate between the video and the ad. I could just imagine it would be difficult to track the view time of the user and this could make the view useless since they can't prove it to the ad customer. I have no in depth knowledge about hls but as I know it's an index file with urls to small fragments of the streamed file. The index file could be regenerated with inserted ad parts and randomized times to make blocking specific video segments useless.

hating the USA = red fascism. Please go on and explain this to the global south.

This instance bashing is funny because back than when I chose lemmy.ml, I had no fucking clue about Lemmy and it was the developers instance.

Dear US Americans,

please vote for anything that speeds up the downfall of your country.

Sincerely everyone outside of the USA.

Is it the wording or the position ? Because I could imagine feeling equally enraged by this.

This is about EdgeHTML not IE

On "features" they would like to see. Most of the time features that make it difficult to block tracking and keep their advertising business going. The web is all about communication standards between different programs and this includes the joint adoption of new standards and respect for the existing standards.