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SponsorBlock – Skip over sponsorship segments on YouTube

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Re: SponsorBlock – Skip over sponsorship segments on YouTube

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Post by partomniscient »

t0mbstone wrote: post #119
grawprog wrote: post #81

I'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…

I am the same. I hate ads, I pay not to see them, and hate anything that has "paid sponsorship" inside the content. It's like product placement/shows designed to sell things, in between the outright advertisements occuring all over again.

Tired of getting VPNs, audiobooks and mobile games getting flogged to me by people who are reading a script and come across as disgenuine all because they have a big enough audience that can be monetised.

I don't like being monetised.

Re: SponsorBlock – Skip over sponsorship segments on YouTube

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Post by hnarn »

Jack000 wrote: post #60

- the more people that use adblock/sponsor block, the less effective ads are in general (lower advertiser ROI for each ad) - if ROI for ads drop, ad sellers (eg. youtubers) have to reduce the price charged to advertisers - given that ad budgets are more or less constant (companies will always need to reach customers) there will simply be more ads, since each ad view is now worth less. - if ads become completely ineff…

So by your logic, we should all be taking in as much advertisements as humanly possible because that would lead to the least net amount of advertisements for all? Excuse me for being somewhat skeptical of that.

Re: SponsorBlock – Skip over sponsorship segments on YouTube

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Post by hippira »

KMnO4 wrote: post #153
sneak wrote: post #147

Earlier quoted context omitted.

VPN ads that are truthful and delivered with integrity are still disrespectful and disgusting, because advertising is a cancer.

Advertising isn’t black/white. I want to see ads telling me there’s a local farm selling produce a few minutes from my house. Or that the new Marvel movie is coming out in a couple months. These things bring value to my life. How else would I know about them?

Yeah, even Cancer isn’t black / white. That concentrated mass showing up on your CT scan might have a chance to be co-living peacefully for the rest of your life. And removing them is actually causing your body more harms.

Re: SponsorBlock – Skip over sponsorship segments on YouTube

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Post by moistbar »

icanhackit wrote: post #111
moistbar wrote: post #86

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There's at least one Youtuber that I enjoy who actually makes decent ads. I'd hate to skip over them because they're usually funny.

Internet Comment Etiquette with Erik and Internet Historian come to mind. Nord VPN Man and Raycon Man ads are the highlight of the latter's videos.

Internet Comment Etiquette was the one I had in mind, yeah.

Re: SponsorBlock – Skip over sponsorship segments on YouTube

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Post by hi_im_miles »

codsane wrote: post #138
daveoc64 wrote: post #131

I really don't like how most sponsored segments are just downright misleading about what VPNs do. Making them funny doesn't change the fact that the ads are deceptive. There's always some fearmongering about people stealing your data on public networks, but no actual substance about feasible attacks that could happen in reality. In the UK, similar ads have been banned by the advertising regulator for being misleading…

I don’t either but I think the blame is often misplaced, most of them literally don’t know any better. They go to an ad network’s website, check a box agreeing to the deal, and receive a prompt to read on air. Now of course they should be doing their own due diligence, but this is the state of podcast advertising right now (and has been for a while, see: BetterHelp controversy) The bullshit is coming straight from th…

I think the blame is appropriately placed here, no one is forcing them to take sponsorships without due diligence. It’s not exactly secret knowledge that these VPN providers can be scummy.

Re: SponsorBlock – Skip over sponsorship segments on YouTube

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Post by hi_im_miles »

antiterra wrote: post #57
cyborgx7 wrote: post #18

Earlier 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.”

Not sure why you would expect people to act any differently when given freely reproducible content. The only solution here would be making adblock illegal and ramping up surveillance.

Re: SponsorBlock – Skip over sponsorship segments on YouTube

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Post by moogly »

vages wrote: post #9

I get the technical justification for doing this: You own your player, so you should be able to control it in whatever way you want. But as consumers, how do we expect the uploader to get paid for their work if we use both Adblock and Sponsor-skip (for the lack of a better word)? Pay to watch is, of course, an option, but that leads to discrimination based on income – unequally distributed between parts of the world…

Doesn't matter. I'm going to skip through it anyway. It won't make a difference to Skillshare, SimpliSafe, Audible and NordVPN if I'm skipping their stuff manually or automagically. Hell, it doesn't truly make a difference if I'm sitting watching their segments because I'm not going to sign up and become a customer of theirs anyway.

Re: SponsorBlock – Skip over sponsorship segments on YouTube

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Post by renewiltord »

katbyte wrote: post #134
renewiltord wrote: post #129

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

I block all ads and I don't think i've ever purchased something from an AD, even when i see them elsewhere or on instagram ect. I honestly wonder what makes me different to you? I definitely don't have self control like that in other aspects of my life. Maybe it's I'm skeptical and figure ever ad is trying to swindle me out of my money maybe?

Maybe you just spend less than me. I also have high scam tolerance. i.e. one of my personal OKRs is to spend some amount of money per year on things just past my scam threshold.
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