Not sure if this is the right place to ask this question. I frequently watch pirated ESPN+ sports streams, and all of them show this “Commercial break in progress” screen when there is a commercial instead of the ads themselves. Recently all of the pirated streams have gone way down hill in quality and reliability. I was thinking about setting up my own pirated stream to help out. But as far as I can tell, there is no ad free tier for ESPN+. Does anyone know how the other streams filter out the ads so I can do the same? I don’t want to be the only stream that still has ads.
I have tried adding the ad URLs to my pihole’s blocklist, but it causes the video to start buffering when the ads come on, and it won’t recover. When I refresh the page, I get an error message saying that the video can’t be played at this time.
Is there’s some way I could redirect those URLs to some other “commercial break in progress” video instead?
That’s weird. I was watching a game last night on ESPN+, and instead of the “commercial break in progress” screen that I normally see when watching pirated streams, I saw commercials. I assumed that the pirated streams do something to filter out those commercials since my experience was different from theirs.
Nah it’s money. It’s always money.