• daddy32@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    That’s “crowdsourced”, i.e. manually done by volunteers on per-video basis.

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      5 months ago

      It’s illegal to not identify an ad as an ad (unless you’re a movie maker, but that’s a different topic). All ad blockers need to do is read that indicator. That might not be super simple, but I have faith in the abilities of the brilliant people behind many ad-blocking technologies.