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minus-squareGissaMittJobb@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up1·1 year agoThis would probably be unviable, since from a UX standpoint you want the first segments of the non-ad content to be preloaded when the ad ends.
minus-squareaksdb@feddit.delinkfedilinkarrow-up3·1 year agoThat will be irrelevant when the control freaks take over. Case in point: anti piracy ads in the good old DVD/BluRay days. Unskippable shit that ironically only punishes people who bought legitimate media.
minus-squareGissaMittJobb@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up1·1 year agoI honestly think that the people at Google are a bit smarter than that, but we’ll see whether that holds or not.
This would probably be unviable, since from a UX standpoint you want the first segments of the non-ad content to be preloaded when the ad ends.
That will be irrelevant when the control freaks take over. Case in point: anti piracy ads in the good old DVD/BluRay days. Unskippable shit that ironically only punishes people who bought legitimate media.
I honestly think that the people at Google are a bit smarter than that, but we’ll see whether that holds or not.