Are the ads injected in real-time or at the start of the video?
I assume it uses extra processing power to add them randomly for each user individually so if it was the latter would rapidly refreshing the page over and over again force them to completely rerun the process over again and slow their servers down? I guess I’m not entirely sure how this would work.
YouTube is experimenting with server-side ads (lemmy.world)
cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/16462338...