Can’t wait for ads to be grotesquely injected into any video on big streaming sites. If you don’t want reruns of Cheers to have distracting ads for Rings of Power you better spring for Prime Platinum. Even the heroes at uBlock Origin are going to have a hard time filtering out injected ads on some YouTuber’s bedroom wall.
I think you’re missing what this is. They’re not adding sponsor segments.
They’re scanning the video, establishing where “free visual space” is, and then embedding advertising into that space. It becomes part of the video, not an intermission. You don’t cut a “time segment” to remove it, you have to cut a “space segment” to remove it. And then what do you fill it with?
There are certainly ways to mitigate it, but they’re not great.
You don’t cut it, that is the answer. Although I suspect that a foss or community scanning tool could also be created with that same advertising databank to try and redraw that portion of scene without the embedded ad (although that likely would have to be a generated guess).
It is not perfect. That is for sure, but why throw in the towel? If anything, start ripping now and prepare for the future.
Ok