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minus-squareStrayce@lemmy.sdf.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·2 months agoTiming and length of ads won’t be consistent between users so this approach doesn’t work.
minus-squareCheeseNoodle@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·2 months agoDepends how wide the range of ads is, if its a set amount/month then you could use the same method to pretty quickly identify which segments of data are ads and automatically cut them out wherever they occur.
Timing and length of ads won’t be consistent between users so this approach doesn’t work.
Depends how wide the range of ads is, if its a set amount/month then you could use the same method to pretty quickly identify which segments of data are ads and automatically cut them out wherever they occur.