Support for ads?

[dodomorandi]

I know that this sounds a bit strange, but I think that adding the support for YouTube Ads would be nice. I know that many youtubers need advertises to keep going on with their channel, and IHMO it is not a problem to watch ads for some seconds. However, at the actual state, it is not possible to do so using Kodi.
I do not want to run ads by default, but at least it would be nice if they could be activated from the plugin settings. What do you think?

[Twilight0]

I have thought about it some time ago but there is a lot of stuff into it to work properly. Playing the ad alone probably won't be enough because Kodi must report back that the ad was indeed watched.

[dodomorandi]

That's a good critical point. Do you think that some sort of official support from YouTube itself could be possible? I mean, Kodi is widely used, and having a plugin officially supported could be a good thing for them. Moreover, who know YouTube APIs better than them?

[anxdpanic]

Yea, it would take quite a bit to get working properly. This is undocumented territory, so ensuring the proper attribution is a concern. Don't want to add ads for the sake of ads, and still not counting towards the content creator.

Official support is very unlikely, between TOS and their public API is for browsing only and playback handled by their supplied players. Which is not possible in our case.

[dodomorandi]

I sincerely hoped that there was some sort of documented APIs around, and, from what you are saying, I understand the reason it is not a piece of cake to implement ads support.
I will try to do some research during my spare time, and if I can do something helpful, I will surely let you know.

[kekukui]

I know that many youtubers need advertises to keep going on with their channel

YouTube is committing massive fraud by demonetizing accounts, deleting subscribers, reseting view counts, sabotaging the trending algorithm, et cetera.

Why Everyone's Leaving YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZQuE0wfjzf0
https://lbry.tv/@EricDubay:c/YouTube's-Latest-Censorship-Method:f

But there are some YouTube alternatives which permit you to monetize content, for example:
https://lbry.com/faq/how-to-publish