I often see the sentiment that YouTube and adblockers will be forever locked in a cat-and-mouse game. However, for many years now, Twitch has entirely eliminated adblocking on desktop web.
What is stopping YouTube from replicating Twitch’s advertising strategy of embedding ads directly into their videos?
Not AI, but there’s a crowd-sourced extension for skipping sponsored sections called ‘SponsorBlock’: https://sponsor.ajay.app/
Same dev is working on a project to remove clickbaity headlines and reactions from video thumbnails. It’s worth sending $1 (optional).
For folks reading through these comments, it’s called DeArrow and is also crowdsourced, so the more users the better!