• themoonisacheese@sh.itjust.works
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    5 months ago

    Legally, YouTube has to tell you you’re watching an ad. This means that at least visually somewhere (it could be baked into the video stream, for example), there should be a distinctive pattern that extensions should be able to grab and make the video fast-forward.

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      5 months ago

      If youtube manages to stop fast forwarding, maybe at the very least we could auto-mute, and maybe overlay photos of puppies or something

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        5 months ago

        Bad idea. People would get a negative Pavlovian reaction to puppies after a while.

        Imagine walking down the street, seeing a puppy and immediately getting annoyed! That’s no way to live, man! 😄