Asura.Eiryl said: »
Can't wait for AI to detect you skipped 60 seconds ahead and halt playback.
This won't be that big a deal; since content buffering *has* to be allowed for any sort of reasonable experience, it's totally up to the client to decide what it reports back to the server and what it shows to the user. Even if they were to splice the ad directly into the video feed so there's no technical distinction, you could manually skip ahead(or maybe anti-ad AI tools will recognize the scene jump, or ad blockers will keep key frames to be aware of it happening).
I don't think they can force you to watch ads without a large scale redesign of the entire system. It's more likely that one or 2 OS releases down the road, we'll have so little control over our own applications that they can do whatever they want.
Edit: Maybe they limit buffering based on real time so that you can't get more than 5-10 seconds ahead, and splice the ads. A smart enough client/adblocker is then left with a best case scenario of having you pause the video for at least the length of the ads over the duration of the video. You could still leave the tab open and wait 30 seconds before starting to skip 30 seconds of ads, or similar, though.
