Also a bizarre move considering they are so hard on for ads because Youtube is incredibly expensive to maintain. You are going to pay for comically large servers by... burning more computer time inserting ads into streams? Google screwed adbuyers before by not actually showing the ads where they were supposed to, Idk why they are trying so hard instead of doing more of that.

[–] Frank@hexbear.net 53 points 5 months ago (2 children)

I was of the impression that a farcically low number of people even used adblockers in the first place.

[–] Awoo@hexbear.net 44 points 5 months ago

As of 2021 it was roughly a third of people using them. No idea what it is now.

[–] Cysioland@lemmygrad.ml 21 points 5 months ago

Possibly they don't want to be actually showing ads, they just want to threaten you with hard to skip and hard to block ads so that you'll buy Premium, but they won't actually go out and say "yeah YouTube is pay to play now" because that'd be a bad move

[–] LodeMike 12 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Not really. If you know what you're doing video stream manipulation is easy. They might just do the Webm concat thing (two webm files put together is just a single webm)

[–] GaveUp@hexbear.net 28 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (3 children)

Not just that, these big tech companies have some genuine black magic fuckery with their tech it's unbelievable. I about lost it when I discovered that Google Drive files are not all copied 1:1 in their datastores. Same runs of 0s and 1s in your file and other files in anybody's Google Drive files are stored only once, and so when you retrieve the file, it actually recreates your uploaded file with a bunch of pointers in sequence to all these different data locations

[–] LodeMike 20 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Yeah why would they store files directly? And its probably more fault tolerant.

[–] btfod@hexbear.net 6 points 5 months ago

Yeah, fuck Google forever of course, but it sounds like a pretty smart way to perform deduplication.

[–] volcel_olive_oil@hexbear.net 17 points 5 months ago

nerd hey, I'm trying to store all data ever created by humanity here