<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>sudosysgen</author><text>This can be bypassed by perceptually hashing B-frames and skipping those associated to ads (or using a cheap dimensionality reduction method and rejecting dissimilar frames). This can be done without even decompressing the frame. You also don&amp;#x27;t have to do it every B-frame, you can just do it every 30 seconds and then binary search for the start and end.&lt;p&gt;If they do end up doing it, I&amp;#x27;d love to write this, it would be a lot of fun.</text><parent_chain><item><author>sbarre</author><text>I suspect what they will eventually do is dynamically splice ads directly into the source video when serving it, so it&amp;#x27;s just there in the mp4 data along with the video you actually want to watch.</text></item><item><author>2OEH8eoCRo0</author><text>Its funny because they could probably satisfy all parties. Why not explore silent ad banners similar to during sports games broadcasts?</text></item><item><author>autoexec</author><text>I just won&amp;#x27;t be watching youtube at all until a workaround is found. If that doesn&amp;#x27;t happen, it was nice knowing you youtube. My guess though is that this will be fixed pretty quickly. Just like every other time Google has done this.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Newpipe/yt-dlp stops working</title><url>https://github.com/TeamNewPipe/NewPipe/issues/11254</url></story>
<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>KETHERCORTEX</author><text>They are already testing this approach on some percentage of audience.</text><parent_chain><item><author>sbarre</author><text>I suspect what they will eventually do is dynamically splice ads directly into the source video when serving it, so it&amp;#x27;s just there in the mp4 data along with the video you actually want to watch.</text></item><item><author>2OEH8eoCRo0</author><text>Its funny because they could probably satisfy all parties. Why not explore silent ad banners similar to during sports games broadcasts?</text></item><item><author>autoexec</author><text>I just won&amp;#x27;t be watching youtube at all until a workaround is found. If that doesn&amp;#x27;t happen, it was nice knowing you youtube. My guess though is that this will be fixed pretty quickly. Just like every other time Google has done this.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Newpipe/yt-dlp stops working</title><url>https://github.com/TeamNewPipe/NewPipe/issues/11254</url></story>