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Why do all this when you can get Revanced on Youtube with clean UI, restore dislikes, play background videos even when phone is turned off just like YT Premium, you can customize and get rid of things you don't like for eg. any sponsored crap, cards, sections, replace clickbaity thumbnails with more appropriate ones, sponsor block built in with colored segment for different kinds of ads and interaction in the video and even change UI to various versions of Youtube app if you like.
Because YouTube is experimenting with ads embedded into the video stream. Revanced won't be able to block those ads
since it already has sponsorBlock, it seems quite easy to block these. Just mark each video itself as "no ad" in full and everything that comes in between is automatically marked as ad. They HAVE to keep the time true in the video, as timestamps have to work. If it is outside of that, skip it automatically.
as a matter of fact YT can't invent any way of showing ADs that can't be circumstanced. They have a few developer, while there are thousands that just HATE ads and will work for free to kill them.
They do not keep the time true in the video. SponsorBlock has been having issues with the A/B testing, because the ads offset the timestamp in ways it can't predict. (See their mastodon post and their FAQ).
There are ways it'll likely be able to work around it (including, as you mentioned, figuring out how the heck timestamp links still work with this) but for now SponsorBlock remains confused by the in-stream ads.
news to me! Thanks.
But honest, never noticed any issue with SponsorBlock and never saw any ads. But also not in any test market from YT so mostly I read about new "anti adblock" features and never notice them at all until they are beaten.