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		tigrezno 7 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: YouTube's new anti-adblock measures AI will kill youtube. You'd be able to watch youtube with like 20 seconds global delay while an AI will silently skip all the ads it finds. It will be our personal content censor.

jay_kyburz 7 days ago [–]

That's a level of optimism I haven't encountered in a while.

Sure AI will stream Youtube for you, but it will be chock-a-block full of its own ads.

The actors will pause mid sentence, turn to the camera and smile while they slam down a coke and tell us all about the latest samsung phone.

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