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German account tho. Expect nothing from my people they are brainwashed as fuck.

I feel the same about this. For me, It kills the best aspect of games, the playful learning. You just can't go into any competitive game today without reading meta or you get crushed. But this is my free time. I want to spend it like that and just be creative and find my own solution to problems and still stand a realistic chance without having to have a second job studying the games meta. It's the try and error discovery that made games fun for me and the feeling when you found your unique way to do things and others couldn't counter it easily. But today it's just about mastering a technique somebody else showed you.

There is no chance to save this. Help everybody who wants to leave as much as it's possible for you and let every idiot who wants to stay to die. Nobody can force you to dedicate your life to an unfair fight against people and their idiotic supporters with so much more power and money than you could ever have. If everybody would act like this they would run out of people very quickly and there would be no civilians in war zones. If they don't let you leave then it's time to go to war.

Eject the doors with explosives as soon as the vehicle velocity is zero and fuck everyone else. Tumbler style.

As I know they transcode every uploaded video to their preferred format. They could use the same infrastructure for the ads. But maybe it's really too expensive.

Yes for example if you return always the same segment when skipping.

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.

Ah ok I didn't know the EU thing. For the algorithm it's a cat and mouse game. You could try to detect it by hash signatures of the segments or some kind of image detection but they could in turn add bytes to change the signature or other attributes. Could require a lot of effort on the blocking site to have the indicators up to date.

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.