This stands no chance with Tim Dillon's audience - the ads he does are better than the show!
SponsorBlock – Skip over sponsorship segments on YouTube
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#122Earlier quoted context omitted.
Advertising is bad and I will oppose it in all its forms. What other system for financing the content does or doesn't exist is irrelevant to the my decision to block as much advertising out of my perception as I can. That said, Patreon seems to be working very well for a lot of people making high quality content.
That reads an awful lot like: “If a content creator’s patronage is not in the form I prefer, I deserve to circumvent that patronage and consume their content anyway. It’s irrelevant to me how & if they are compensated.”
Yes that’s exactly how I feel.
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#123I was looking to make something similar for podcasts using music finger print matching to detect the motif that is played before the mid break
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#124I'm not going to bash this or anything, I see why people dislike the sponsor segments, it's advertising after all, but as someone who honestly could not afford to donate to every single channel I enjoy watching, I'm glad content creators have a way to make money while still providing content essentially for free. I'd rather sit and watch a silly ad than just not have access to the content because I couldn't afford to…
I pay for Youtube Premium specifically because I DON'T WANT TO WATCH ADS. Ever. I hate ads with a passion. I get the fact that content creators need to make money, but there needs to be a better way. Youtube needs to give content creators a way to put ads in their own content in a manner that gets automatically hidden if people pay for Youtube Premium. Worst case scenario, I would even pay for a higher tier of Youtub…
YouTube Premium pays creators substantially more than viewing ads would, and the creators thank you by shoving ads down your throat anyway. Skipping them is more than fair.
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#125Earlier quoted context omitted.
On the linked page, under the "start free trial" button, there's this: > 7-day free trial > then $5 per month or $50 per year
You can get a much better deal than that. Sign up for Curiosity Stream using a promoted bundle link and you get Nebula free with it. It's only $12/year this way. Here's one from the LegalEagle guy: https://curiositystream.com/legaleagle/
That's true, but my comment was more pointing out that the price is there (it's not prominent though)
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#126I'm not going to bash this or anything, I see why people dislike the sponsor segments, it's advertising after all, but as someone who honestly could not afford to donate to every single channel I enjoy watching, I'm glad content creators have a way to make money while still providing content essentially for free. I'd rather sit and watch a silly ad than just not have access to the content because I couldn't afford to…
I pay for Youtube Premium specifically because I DON'T WANT TO WATCH ADS. Ever. I hate ads with a passion. I get the fact that content creators need to make money, but there needs to be a better way. Youtube needs to give content creators a way to put ads in their own content in a manner that gets automatically hidden if people pay for Youtube Premium. Worst case scenario, I would even pay for a higher tier of Youtub…
Yeah, agree with this 100%. Really want to support creators, but I’m also specifically paying not to see ads. Would also pay for a higher tier were it available.
Ideally the terms of any such new higher pricing tier would preserve creator profitability (versus whatever arrangement they have now), but not sure how realistic that is once it all comes under Google’s purview.
I note that a lot of the best creators seem to put their private sponsorship arrangements at the back end of their videos, so at least you can switch away after the content is over.
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#127If you're on Android, YouTube Vanced now has built in support for SponsorBlock. It's great.
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#128Blocking 3rd party network ads do deprive creators of revenue; but using uBlock Origins does have these important benefits: *Protects you from malicious attacks through 3rd party ad networks. *Keeps your browser fast from trackers. *Stops intrusive ads that literally take up 30% of your screen and move the website around making it difficult to read an article. But sponsored segments built into the video itself? It ha…
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#129Earlier quoted context omitted.
Are the people who tend to use adblock likely to actually engage with the ads with adblock off?
Yeah, I always wondered if adblockers actually _improved_ per ad engagement, as users of an adblocker are opting themselves out of advertisement (thereby removing themselves from "inventory"), and seem like they would be less likely overall to engage with ads, and thus the adblocker usage is reducing the number of non-engaging users. Sure, overall "inventory" would go down, but I would expect for ads that actually ma…
As existence proof, I buy stuff I see when I'm watching TV at someone else's place or when I use Instagram (which has ads right in the Stories feed). I see no reason why I'm special since I'm a pretty normal user when I'm using these things.
Re: SponsorBlock – Skip over sponsorship segments on YouTube
#130Blocking 3rd party network ads do deprive creators of revenue; but using uBlock Origins does have these important benefits: *Protects you from malicious attacks through 3rd party ad networks. *Keeps your browser fast from trackers. *Stops intrusive ads that literally take up 30% of your screen and move the website around making it difficult to read an article. But sponsored segments built into the video itself? It ha…
Tracking aside, ads are essentially malware for the mind.