SponsorBlock – Skip over sponsorship segments on YouTube
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SponsorBlock – Skip over sponsorship segments on YouTube
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Re: SponsorBlock – Skip over sponsorship segments on YouTube
#2I understand people don't like ads, but at some point doesn't someone have to pay creators for content? This feels just like stealing: I don't know how you can justify it: sponsor spots don't track you and they don't slow down your computer. Yes they are a minor inconvenience but they make the content you watch possible.
Re: SponsorBlock – Skip over sponsorship segments on YouTube
#3Someone needs to build similar functionality into a podcast player.
Re: SponsorBlock – Skip over sponsorship segments on YouTube
#4With a million labelled examples, it ought to be possible to use machine learning to detect sponsorships.
A simple version using the auto-generated captions should be pretty straightforward - I'm sure a machine learning model can figure out how to detect "This video is supported by..."
Re: SponsorBlock – Skip over sponsorship segments on YouTube
#5Someone needs to build similar functionality into a podcast player.
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Re: SponsorBlock – Skip over sponsorship segments on YouTube
#6I understand people don't like ads, but at some point doesn't someone have to pay creators for content? This feels just like stealing: I don't know how you can justify it: sponsor spots don't track you and they don't slow down your computer. Yes they are a minor inconvenience but they make the content you watch possible.
YouTubers who have both sponsor spots and adverts are the ones to be blocking...
Re: SponsorBlock – Skip over sponsorship segments on YouTube
#7I understand people don't like ads, but at some point doesn't someone have to pay creators for content? This feels just like stealing: I don't know how you can justify it: sponsor spots don't track you and they don't slow down your computer. Yes they are a minor inconvenience but they make the content you watch possible.
For these sponsored contents it doesn't really matter though. The content creator has already been paid, so whether you watch the segment or not, they won't lose or make money.
Re: SponsorBlock – Skip over sponsorship segments on YouTube
#8I understand people don't like ads, but at some point doesn't someone have to pay creators for content? This feels just like stealing: I don't know how you can justify it: sponsor spots don't track you and they don't slow down your computer. Yes they are a minor inconvenience but they make the content you watch possible.
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Re: SponsorBlock – Skip over sponsorship segments on YouTube
#9I 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 and individuals in the same part of the world. (Yes, I am aware that the sponsorship system leads the creators to cater to the more well-off within each bubble, so it's still a bit discriminatory.)
Any ideas or objections?
Re: SponsorBlock – Skip over sponsorship segments on YouTube
#10Someone needs to build similar functionality into a podcast player.
Go on, ping the developer and let them know.
Earlier is better to expand something like this to $everything, like what happened to youtube-dl, precisely because the codebase is less mature and it's easier to rip things to bits earlier than later.