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Dec 31, 2004

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Dec 31, 2004

there's no such thing as a "smart tv" yet.

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Dec 31, 2004

going to the movies is now watching thousands of superheroes save their reality's new york or another large city from a large special effect threat after banding together and overcoming their own personal issues.

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Dec 31, 2004

mishaq posted:

what i dont get with the ads on internet video streaming sites is why they are served from a different domain/server than the actual content that allows adblock to block them

so then i have to janitor my mom's home computer to whitelist cbs.com and poo poo so she can watch her horrible tv shows

why cant they just serve ads from the same place the content comes from so adblock cant do anything about it

is it really as dumb as the actual stream comes from content4.cnd.cbs.com and the ads come from ads.cdn.cbs.com?
for load balancing reasons

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Dec 31, 2004

rotor posted:

no one cares about Adblock because (1) it's not that common and (2) no one wants to get into an arms race they can't win.

a ton of sites just dont play videos properly if they detect adblock is in use. at least the chrome/safari versions anyway. so they are detecting and blocking the adblock so to speak.

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