YouTube has been spotted testing server-side ads, which could pose a problem to ad blockers.

  • dan@upvote.au
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    3 months ago

    YouTube is forced to display the “Advertisement” mark

    They’re forced to identify that it’s an ad, but they don’t have to do it in a machine-readable way. There’s many different approaches to show an “Advertisement” or “Sponsored” label that appears to users but that blockers can’t easily find.

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      3 months ago

      If they don’t link to the advertisers page, they’ll lose advertisers, which is the last thing YouTube would do. Legally, a video-embedded “Advertisement” indicator could work, but the link to the advertisers page remains.