/nIn news wrote:

OK, let me find out whether YouTube is being honest by declaring in the
video stream that an advertisement has started.

Thanks for this offer to learn more as the New Pipe code is open source and
many years old, so Google knows all about it, especially since it directly
competes with YouTube Red functionality.

Notice the orange strips in the video's skip bar.

I haven't seen those "orange strips".
What are those orange strips supposed to be telling us?