YouTube Server-Side Ad Injection

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YouTube is currently experimenting with server-side ad injection. This means that the ad is being added directly into the video stream. This breaks sponsorblock since now all timestamps are offset by the ad times.

What it means

A screenshot explains that YouTube is testing server-side advertisements inserted directly into video streams. The joke is that these inserted ads shift timestamps and break SponsorBlock, a tool designed to skip sponsored segments, making the platform’s experiment inconvenient for ad-skipping users.

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