Dev releases ‘unblockable’ ASCII video stream software, stoking fears of unstoppable ads — delivers 360p video at 30 FPS and acts as a ‘bridge for AI’

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Dev releases ‘unblockable’ ASCII video stream software, stoking fears of unstoppable ads — delivers 360p video at 30 FPS and acts as a ‘bridge for AI’

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micheal_15 And so I simply click DENY when a browser tries to install this plugin / .JS tool And if it's built-in? I will simply change browser. They all work nearly the same now, and have ways to import ALL my bookmarks etc, so changing browser takes like 3mins tops. Reply

hotaru251 "unblockable" doesn't exist. There are giant corpo spending millions to try and fight ad blockers and failing time and time again. Reply

habermas This is the biggest nothing-burger that could only be "invented" by an ahistorical script kiddie with no real knowledge of computer science and free access to vibecoding tools. uBlock can block any HTML element so calling this "unblockable" is a stretch. There is no performance benefit in converting to text compared to using the original video input. Video codecs are among the most efficient, performant and hardware-accelerated algorithms known to man. VLC already offers a video-to-ASCII codec built-in, which can stream over a web socket out of the box. Sending only the characters that change (delta frames) and applying GZIP compression both help in this regard. How do you think a video codec works? Reply

redandblue2 I wish we had a browser that would let us pay to skip ads, for the 100/th of a cent they get from each view, being able to load up $5 in your browser and be good for a while seems like a simple option for those of us that don't mind paying for content Reply

usertests redandblue2 said: I wish we had a browser that would let us pay to skip ads, for the 100/th of a cent they get from each view, being able to load up $5 in your browser and be good for a while seems like a simple option for those of us that don't mind paying for content You don't want to wish for that because the ad networks are also collecting and selling information about you. Better just to block it all, use some workarounds for broken stuff if needed, and then avoid what remains broken. If you still want to pay, there's often options. Like the YouTubers that have segments skipped by SponsorBlock are often going to have channel memberships, superchats, and Patreon. Tom's Hardware offers their Premium. And so on. Reply

redandblue2 usertests said: You don't want to wish for that because the ad networks are also collecting and selling information about you. Better just to block it all, use some workarounds for broken stuff if needed, and then avoid what remains broken. If you still want to pay, there's often options. Like the YouTubers that have segments skipped by SponsorBlock are often going to have channel memberships, superchats, and Patreon. Tom's Hardware offers their Premium. And so on. True, but some adblockers also collect and sell your data. I guess i was imagining browser that you could (anonymously if you choose) put money into like tokens that would then be used. Idk if that would even be possible. Idk, im like at least a decade behind on this kinda stuff. Maybe im wrong, but at this point i feel like trying to keep companies from getting your data is a losing battle. It Wouldnt surprise me if the same companies selling your data own the services that find your info an get it deleted (like incogni, optery, ect) I dont mind paying youtube red since thats like 95 % of what i watch. What id really like at this point is an extension that automatically declines every request for push notifications..even this website wants me to enable them. Reply

usertests redandblue2 said: True, but some adblockers also collect and sell your data. I guess i was imagining browser that you could (anonymously if you choose) put money into like tokens that would then be used. Idk if that would even be possible. Idk, im like at least a decade behind on this kinda stuff. Brave used to have a scheme where you earned BAT (basic attention tokens) cryptocurrency from their own periodic non-tracking popup ads, and then you could reward that to enrolled creators/sites, or even have it automatically rewarded based on the time you spent. I don't know if the feature still works that way since the sharing program might not have gotten enough participation. I just turn those ads off and use Brave's built-in blocking. Reply

alrighty_then In addition to what's already been said, ad providers want their ad servers to send the data so they can track & see the hits. If the content (proposed as text here) is coming from their ad servers it can be blocked (via hosts file) just like images or any other content coming from their servers. On the other hand, if the ad companies were to trust the sites they are paying to send the ads directly and track usage…well, that has obvious problems for them as then they can be misled to pay for more eyeballs than they actually reach. Reply

rooted The irony is strong. This article on a site which actively blocks access to people running ad blocking and is one of the most ad infested sites on the Internet. Reply

John musbach Admin said: A new and unique video streaming solution is pitched as a 'high-performance, real-time ASCII video rendering engine' that can be used to broadcast 'an unblockable video stream.' Dev releases ‘unblockable’ ASCII video stream software — delivers 360p video at 30 FPS and acts as a ‘bridge for AI’ : Read more It's ok I prefer ads to paywall Reply

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