• AdrianTheFrog@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    You could probably train something like that on semi-reasonable consumer hardware. Ads often have a very distinctive style and tone, and you need only a single output - the probability of it being any given second being an ad. It would probably take a lot to run though, you better hope the people who install the extension have good PCs. And, it would probably never get 100% accurate, you’d have to put up with still seeing some ads and having to rewind when it skips over valid video.

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      6 months ago

      it might even be ridiculously simple given that ads almost 100% of the time have louder audio than the content by design.

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      6 months ago

      It’s usually even easier than that… In my jurisdiction, ads have to be clearly labeled and identified. It should be relatively trivial to detect this label.