Comment on Amazon develops methods for inserting ads onto any flat surface in an existing video
Windex007@lemmy.world 13 hours agoI think you’re missing what this is. They’re not adding sponsor segments.
They’re scanning the video, establishing where “free visual space” is, and then embedding advertising into that space. It becomes part of the video, not an intermission. You don’t cut a “time segment” to remove it, you have to cut a “space segment” to remove it. And then what do you fill it with?
There are certainly ways to mitigate it, but they’re not great.
Truscape@lemmy.blahaj.zone 13 hours ago
You don’t fill it, that is the answer. Although I suspect that a foss or community scanning tool could also be created with that same advertising databank to try and redraw that portion of scene without the embedded ad (although that likely would have to be a generated guess).
It is not perfect. That is for sure, but why throw in the towel? If anything, start ripping now and prepare for the future.
Windex007@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
Ok