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YouTube can't stop showing me AI deepfake ads (www.spacebar.news)
submitted 2 years ago by to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[–] 14 points 2 years ago (2 children)

This doesn't work for most streaming services. The ads and the actual video come from the same server. I know this is the case on Hulu (probably YouTube, too).

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago*

    Yeah it doesn’t block YouTube ads, because YouTube hosts the ads locally. No reason to have the ad provider host their own, when YT already has the infrastructure built to host them. Trying to use DNS to block YT ads would also block the videos themselves, which sort of defeats the entire purpose of using the site.

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