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[–] setsneedtofeed@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

If users are crowdsourcing what the embedded ads are, couldn’t this hypothetical situation be solved by a version of sponserblock that just looks at the agreggurate of the non-flagged video runtime, and learns what the content is and then cuts out any aberrations?