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I think this is most likely sadly.

There has been no working adblocker for twitch.tv for over a year now. As far as I know, they are splicing the ad directly into the main video stream while it’s playing, so there’s no way to differentiate it from the content at all.

Surely it’s only a matter of time before youtube starts doing this too.




> Surely it’s only a matter of time before youtube starts doing this too.

I recently learned about the SponsorBlock extension[1] for YouTube. It's a crowdsourced collection of the location and duration of in-band sponsorships in YouTube videos. The extension queries the database for each video, then skips over the sponsorship portion of the video. I don't use it myself, since I don't mind skipping sponsorships manually, but it's kind of fascinating that it exists and (apparently) works.

[1] https://sponsor.ajay.app/about


Oh yeah SponsorBlock is great! It reminds me of Wikipedia - it is surprisingly reliable given that it's crowdsourced.

It does rely on the sponsor being at the same location in the video every time though, so it's not a solution to twitch-style adverts.




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