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Re: SponsorBlock – skip sponsor segments on YouTube

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Post by pixxel »

sBqQu3U0wH wrote: post #76
noone_youknow wrote: post #16

As a YouTuber, I’m conflicted about this. My main channel (non-tech) is small, but is monetised, and YouTube see fit to throw me a _very_ variable amount of money every month. CPMs are down right now so revenue has tanked along with it, it’ll pick back up at some point, but the variability is itself the pain point. My videos are relatively expensive and time consuming to make, but people seem to find them useful, and…

Never in my life have I been interested in any sponsor mentioned in a YouTube video. It's sad to see creators having to include these humiliation rituals in their videos just to keep their channels alive. To me, such tools are just a noise filter.

It is sad. Early YT was for hobbyists and those that loved to share.

Re: SponsorBlock – skip sponsor segments on YouTube

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Post by precommunicator »

delta_p_delta_x wrote: post #22

For anyone using an Android phone, the ReVanced[1] patches for the YouTube app (formerly just YouTube Vanced) applies both an adblock and SponsorBlock, on top of various other convenience features. You'll need to provide your own YouTube APK file to patch. I'll never go back to using non-Vanced YouTube ever again. Advertisements are a blight on this world. They are the reason for marketing and sales budgets being qua…

Unless you specifically care about app experience, you can also use Sponsorblock, ublock and many other extensions in plain Firefox on Android

Re: SponsorBlock – skip sponsor segments on YouTube

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Post by consteval »

eropple wrote: post #119
lrvick wrote: post #38

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Making YouTube non-viable is the entire point. Google should not be the gatekeeper for the world's content, or get to decide who wins and loses in a rat race trying to keep up with algorithms built to keep users addicted to low quality advertizer friendly content. The end game of ad blocking tech is to make ads a non viable source of revenue so creators will move on to ethical platforms like LBRY or peertube where cr…

These are platforms with worse availability and worse affordances, ranging to nonfunctional once you're on a mobile device. Adblocking technology isn't going to make them better. Making them better is going to make them better, but the unit economics remain not in their favor. A more likely future is less video rather than people move to PeerTube and shake an upturned hat for donations . Which doesn't bother me much,…

> A more likely future is less video

I would say less big budget video. If we're being honest, YouTube is essentially television at this point. Many YouTube views, maybe even most, don't go towards individual creators. They go to Studios and the Jimmy Kimmel's of the world.

If someone like boxxy is making videos with a potato cam on her bedroom floor, I don't think she necessarily cares much about the monetization.

That USED to be the entire draw and appeal of YouTube. Then monetization came and surprise! The platform changed to be more monetizable, i.e. watered down and corporate.

Re: SponsorBlock – skip sponsor segments on YouTube

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Post by strogonoff »

4ggr0 wrote: post #310
strogonoff wrote: post #307

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When content creator chooses and delivers ads (like the sponsored blocks on YouTube), as opposed to a network (like Google ads), it is actually worthwhile to me because 1) what they promote can be useful (since I subscribe to this channel in particular), 2) it is not fueled by a creepy shadow profile of me, 3) even if it is not useful, what they choose to promote (and how they do it) reveals something about them (scr…

> what they choose to promote (and how they do it) reveals something about them maybe the YTers you watch are different, but that's not the case for me at all. Barely anyone promotes things which relates to their channel in the videos i watch. Hello Fresh, Manscaped, Squarespace, RAID: Shadow Legends, World of Tanks are the sponsor segments i mostly see, none of them relate to the video which they're in. honorable ex…

Among the channels or podcasts I follow that do sponsored blocks, some occasionally promote interesting services I haven’t heard about before, some (well, let’s be frank, there’s probably only one in the world that really hits it home: Map Men) can do even the most basic generic VPNs in a manner that can be equally or more entertaining than the rest of the video, making one literally wait to see the entire ad (even when it is at the very end), some do big but informative sponsored sections where the presenter interviews the business.

Re: SponsorBlock – skip sponsor segments on YouTube

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Post by StableAlkyne »

prmoustache wrote: post #264
StableAlkyne wrote: post #127

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The best part about AdNauseum is it solves the criticism people give ad-blockers: content creators still get paid

But viewers do not owe anything to videomakers[1] [1] honestly content creator is a terrible word for what it is, I wish people would stop repeating that non sense.

I agree completely, but it's easier to build a bridge than it is to redirect a river.

Re: SponsorBlock – skip sponsor segments on YouTube

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Post by ThrowawayTestr »

MaxikCZ wrote: post #203
jamesy0ung wrote: post #136

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LTT is not even worth watching, it’s just sponsored crap now disguises as a informational video

I really dont understand how that channel can have so many fans. Makes me humble in realizing I really dont know how people work.

I know right? Personally, I only watch MIT lectures or C-SPAN highlights on YouTube. No idea how the proles can tolerate that slop.

Re: SponsorBlock – skip sponsor segments on YouTube

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Post by ThrowawayTestr »

MaxikCZ wrote: post #204
delta_p_delta_x wrote: post #22

For anyone using an Android phone, the ReVanced[1] patches for the YouTube app (formerly just YouTube Vanced) applies both an adblock and SponsorBlock, on top of various other convenience features. You'll need to provide your own YouTube APK file to patch. I'll never go back to using non-Vanced YouTube ever again. Advertisements are a blight on this world. They are the reason for marketing and sales budgets being qua…

Has the installation gotten easier? Last time I checked I needed to find a speccific version apk of youtube app itself that revanced patcher patches before installing. Too many steps to make way too often.

God forbid you have to expend a bit of effort every six months to get free entertainment and skip ads.

Re: SponsorBlock – skip sponsor segments on YouTube

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Post by ThrowawayTestr »

account42 wrote: post #273

Personally I just stop watching videos and entire channels with sponsored segments. If they are okay with shilling some crappy product for a little cash I don't trust them not to sell out or be deceptive in less obvious ways as well.

I also expect my entertainment providers to work for free.

Re: SponsorBlock – skip sponsor segments on YouTube

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Post by progforlyfe »

sidewndr46 wrote: post #339
dkarras wrote: post #245

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you're not the target. advertisements work. the people managing ads are very meticulous about their spend vs. return. if you are seeing an ad of something for any noticeable duration of time, that means it works. by that I mean they get positive return from showing the world their ad. if it generates negative returns, it will be pulled pretty quickly. they are humans just like you and me, we don't like losing money.…

This is the same myths that everyone in advertising propagates. Such a belief purports that the effect of all advertising is measurable. It clearly is not. For example, someone sees your ad and decides your company is reprehensible. They were not a customer and they decide to never interact with your company. It's not possible to measure this. Anyone claiming it is holds what amounts to a religious belief. The "gener…

pretty sure YouTube ads are directly trackable though -- if someone clicks it and funnels through to a checkout process and pays, they have a direct report of how much they spent on the ad versus how much they made directly from that ad.

YouTube in-video sponsorships are a different beast admittedly; however there is still some basic tracking through use of promo codes (Use code JOHN15 for 15% off). They can see a report of how much they spent on ads that mention JOHN15 and how many sales included that promo code -- if sales vs ad spend are significantly positive, it becomes simple math to determine how much more to spend on ads, or to discontinue them.

I suppose your point though was that it's not possible to track the negative sentiment generated by the ads (people who get annoyed and decide to avoid your company at all costs). That is true, but companies who rather go down the path of something trackable than an unknown shot in the dark.

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Post by braden-lk »

throw10920 wrote: post #209
braden-lk wrote: post #189

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LegendKeeper will never have ad placements because of how ugly they are. Personally I wouldn’t be able to tolerate an ad messing up the flow of our designs and user focus, lol. Idk how others do it; we also never relied on ads in the first place so maybe that makes it easier. (LegendKeeper mentioned!! 8))

LOL, it's awesome to see a LegendKeeper dev here! I don't TTRPG but I have a friend who does and is using your tool. I love the UI, did you model it off Notion?

That's great to hear! Always happy to see LK usage out in the wild.

Definitely Notion-inspired! Over the next few months we'll be putting more of our own spin on it, though.

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