YouTube has been spotted testing server-side ads, which could pose a problem to ad blockers.

  • dan@upvote.au
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    5 months ago

    They have a LOT of compute power… They could have several baked in ads per geographical area / demographic and only store them on servers in / close to the relevant country. There’s definitely associated costs but I wonder if it’d amortize well given their viewer count.