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		esperent 8 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: YouTube's new anti-adblock measures It would break all the time stamps as well, unless you had fixed length ads. Sponsorblock already skips ads embedded in videos, so I don't think this would make ads much harder to block.

BriggyDwiggs42 8 months ago [–]

True, it would be sorta impossible to make timestamps work without sending the length of the ad section, so you could easily skip it programmatically.

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