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		finger on June 29, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: YouTube is testing a more aggressive approach agai... Could you, in theory, stream a “video” of a website to the user and handle only the input (mouse, keybord) from the user? The user would then not interact with a website but with a “video” where everything is rendered server side thus making it impossible to block any ads.

leduyquang753 on June 30, 2023 | [–]

You can then try to calculate how much more ad time would be needed to cover the cost of pulling over that move.

Rebelgecko on June 30, 2023 | | [–]

Too bad Stadia got (mostly) killed off, sounds like the perfect use case

govg on June 29, 2023 | [–]

Sounds like ssh -x.

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