Can’t wait for ads to be grotesquely injected into any video on big streaming sites. If you don’t want reruns of Cheers to have distracting ads for Rings of Power you better spring for Prime Platinum. Even the heroes at uBlock Origin are going to have a hard time filtering out injected ads on some YouTuber’s bedroom wall.
Thought about that about 10 years ago. There was already patents on this
I’ve been ad-free for long enough at this point that I feel physically assaulted when I see one (at a friend’s house or whatever). It’s insane that we ever thought that was ok, and it’s become worse.
At this point, adblock is a survival measure. Piracy is self-defense. The first presidential candidate who campaigns on legalizing graffiti on billboards and mandating their eventual removal gets my vote. Burn it all.
I’m the exact same way. Ads are revolting to me and usually make me angry to some extent, and it’s only getting worse. Like they literally cannot get enough. I paid for a Nvidia Shield just so I didn’t have to deal with the Fire sticks bullshit constant eye rape the second you turn on the thing.
I can’t even watch sports in real time. I have to let it buffer so I can fast forward through breaks and such.
Still a lot of ads on uniforms and all over the stadium, but it’s mostly the audio (that is often louder than what you’re watching) and the break in continuity for commercial breaks that pisses me off the most.
What’s worse is this even makes attending the game in person miserable. I know many very passionate college football fans who show up hours before the game to hang out with friends, and then more times then not end up leaving the game itself early. Why? Because the game itself is a drag. If a game is televised, they add extra breaks to the game to accommodate ads. The game gets stretched out from something of reasonable length to some absurd 3-4 hour long slog. People then only stick around if the winner remains unclear. If the games were a more reasonable 2 hour length, with more engaging and constant action, then most folks would stay to the end.
Ads are against human rights. They manipulate your feelings and force you to make biased choices. They should be banned.
Companies/creatives/collectives need a way to show what they have to offer so it gets out there. Ads are far and away out of control, but their abolishment has it’s own problems (and people will advertise anyways, just stealth like they already are)
You see it first they’ll do it with carefully chosen surfaces…
Then I’ll just let AI do it randomly, Before long an incredibly emotional scene we’ll get a tasteless ad.
Who wants to be watching a dog get put down in Marley and me, only to be taken out of it when you see an advert on the back wall for… Idk… Trojan condoms?
I vaguely remember seeing ads on cliff faces etc in movies 15 years ago on television, but I think they stopped using them very quickly. Is this just a comeback of a failed test?
The dogs gonna die anyway, why not fuck it before it gets cold?
Trojan, for all your animal fucking needs.
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John Wick: I’m coming for you!
…wait…
I wish Amazon wasn’t so decentralized, it makes it so hard to just burn it all down.
We’re burning down the wrong Amazon
Corporate bootlickers: “Capitalism breeds innovation”
The innovation:
This was in June 2023? Or am I missing something?
Wouldn’t be surprised if this was the garbage tech powering the NHL board ads.
Here’s something from 2025 and it’s even better, because AI!
They started doing it with cereal boxes and other products in Seinfeld reruns years ago.
That’s gross
in existing video
So… A fucking overlay?
You should check the included PDF - contents are crazy. But the example result looks comically similar to an overlay.
Yo ho, yo ho, a pirate’s life for me! (Has been for years now)
There’s lots of YouTube stuff that isn’t popular enough for anyone to post
You do have plenty of options for downloading youtube videos directly without viewing them using tools like yt-dlp either in terminal or using one of its many GUI front ends. Apps like GrayJay and YT Revanced also have downloading youtube videos integrated, so no setup needed.
I have my own personal collection from my favorite creators :)
That’s still not a solution, because this sounds like they could embed it in the video file if they pursue it. And the basic issue is that you have tons of short videos you only watch once and all around it’s not really a good fit for torrents.
Regarding the short form content, that is a valid concern, but I would argue that’s more of an issue with the medium rather than with the tools available. However, regarding the embedded advertising, yt-dlp already has sponsorblock trimming integrated into the program (you can set a flag to remove detected segments from the finished video file), and extending this to encompass a databank of known circulating advertisements could go a long way.
Also, curated lists for certain categories could be maintained by groups. Hardware tutorials, for instance, rarely need constant updates and therefore a known good library could be downloaded once and circulated.
I think you’re missing what this is. They’re not adding sponsor segments.
They’re scanning the video, establishing where “free visual space” is, and then embedding advertising into that space. It becomes part of the video, not an intermission. You don’t cut a “time segment” to remove it, you have to cut a “space segment” to remove it. And then what do you fill it with?
There are certainly ways to mitigate it, but they’re not great.
You don’t cut it, that is the answer. Although I suspect that a foss or community scanning tool could also be created with that same advertising databank to try and redraw that portion of scene without the embedded ad (although that likely would have to be a generated guess).
It is not perfect. That is for sure, but why throw in the towel? If anything, start ripping now and prepare for the future.
Ok
Behold, here is the screenshot of an example result from the included paper.
What do we have on a kitchen wall? But of course, a banner for an upcoming Streaming TV show.
Not only is it distracting and disgusting, but it starts normalising ads everywhere. Cigarettes were digitally removed so as to not set a bad example for kids. But letting them think that it’s perfectly normal to have glowing ads decorating the walls of your workplace is fiiiine.
Brb gonna buy some RGB ads from AliExpress to decorate my bathroom…
This looks astonishingly bad. A simple banner at the bottom would an improvement at this point.
and this is why im watching the mighty nein and hazbin on jellyfin
Inb4 someone writes a program and calls it AdblockAI. It gets trained on the shape of corporate logos and on the fly in-paints those regions of the screen to remove the logos.
On that same note, how about AR glasses that put black bars over ads and logos you encounter in real life so companies don’t get to subliminally advertise at you.
Fast forward 100 years, and we’ll be working on anti-ad glasses that counteract the Meta glasses that counteract the anti-ad glasses that counteract the Elon eye implants. 😔
How about ar glasses that put a bag over my head so no one knows I have ar glasses
This was my first and only idea for AR goggles and I think somebody has already made that mock up if you search online that will actually do that
Reminder to send all YouTube videos you watch to various web archives
They edited all the movie dialog to be woke/ now they’re gonna edit all the graphics to grab more money. :-D
What movie dialogue did they edit?
Rereading that, it’s not super clear who “they” is referring to. Here is what I was trying to say: In the past, some of our media has been revised to make it politically correct, books, film, and other media. I don’t agree with this, but I do think some of those people have good intentions. Putting ads on cultural artifacts (like our media) retroactively is whole new level of evil: supervillain evil. It’s like “Stonehenge, brought to you by CocaCola and Nestle” or “Skip the line at the Great Pyramid with Amazon Prime”. One is motivated by a misguided desire to protect everyone’s feefees. The other one is just pure greed.
You never answered the question. Can you give some clear examples to support anything at all you’re saying?
Han shooting first in the OG Star Wars vs shooting secind in the remasters is the first, major change to be more PC that comes to mind. There are tons of classic films that have had re-makes or re-releases that have done what that user is claiming.
I’m not a fan of that change, but I don’t really see it as an attempt to be more ‘politically correct’.
Han Solo was going to marry Leia, and you look back and say, “Should he be a cold-blooded killer?” Because I was thinking mythologically—should he be a cowboy, should he be John Wayne? And I said, “Yeah, he should be John Wayne.” And when you’re John Wayne, you don’t shoot people [first]—you let them have the first shot. It’s a mythological reality that we hope our society pays attention to."
I think Lucas is wrong, because even if he shoots first Han is being threatened with kidnap and death, so he’s not a cold-blooded murderer to shoot the guy threatening him. But unless we’re rolling all ideas of heroism and morality into woke/PC then I don’t think that example works at all.
What is ‘woke’? Forgive me, I’ve been on the internet for years, but I still haven’t met someone who can succinctly define what it means. I keep getting these conflicting, confusing definitions.
And that’s why I got myself Verbatim 43888 with BU40N drive and also setup an Arr stack.
Any good place to start on a complete arr stack?
Check this guide
You will need:
- To learn/get to know docker-compose or some kind of docker-compose manager. (I suggest Komodo)
- Storage! Lots of it!
- Patience - Arr stack is easy, but might be confusing to configure sometimes
- Preferably USENET account, but private and free torrent trackers will also work fine.
The rest is just trial and error. After you succeed, you’ll have automated media downloads for TV/Movies/Music/Books. Also, don’t hesitate to google around and see what people suggest.
Ads are way past the point of pissing me off so much that i just block my ears and close my eyes until they go away.
Its fucking disrespectful to expect people to just be ok with having that shit shoveled into their eye sockets.
Amazon is a tool to me to get the things i want based on need for things that i am doing or to replace things that are broken. I am not window shopping there. I am not browsing things. I know what i need. I find the cheapest one with the highest rating and buy it.
Look at this guy, thinking he’s worthy of “respect”! The fucking temerity, the absolute gall of these poors!
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