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As I mentioned in another comment, I view this as the largest deal breaker for a lot of people. You pay to remove the YT ads, but you still get a 2m plug out of

As I mentioned in another comment, I view this as the largest deal breaker for a lot of people. You pay to remove the YT ads, but you still get a 2m plug out of a 10m video which is already stretched so that it gets in the upper echelon of adsense monetization. Even if you don't see YT-placed ads, the content you are watching has evolved due to the effects of that.

throwaway2048 5y ago
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/sponsorblock/?src=search https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/sponsorblock/... https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/sponsorblock-for-youtube/mnjggcdmjocbbbhaepdhchncahnbgone https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/sponsorblock-for-y... Sponsorblock works incredibly well at blocking in video sponsored ads.
naravara 5y ago
It seems like it would be easiest if YouTube just charged the content creators for hosting so they could work out their own sponsorship/advertising deals and pay YouTube at some sort of capitated rate for exposure. YouTube gets a bigger bank of content and more eyeballs in the site to see other ads and the content creators get to use YouTube for the built-in audience without needing to be subject to the vagaries of its monetization policies. Presumably the content creators would also be able to designate spaces in their videos for ads to insert for their older videos so YouTube can still make money off them without a retired content producer needing to take them down to avoid being charged for views.
ohazi 5y ago
Preroll and midroll ads can't be skipped. You can scrub past sponsor segments.
- jfrunyon 5y ago
  The ads almost always take less time than finding the end of the sponsor segment would take me. (Plus they can be skipped if you have an adblocker. The only time I see YouTube ads is on my Roku in bed.)

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As I mentioned in another comment, I view this as the largest deal breaker for a lot of people. You pay to remove the YT ads, but you still get a 2m plug out of

by nomorewords 5y ago

throwaway2048 5y ago
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/sponsorblock/?src=search https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/sponsorblock/... https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/sponsorblock-for-youtube/mnjggcdmjocbbbhaepdhchncahnbgone https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/sponsorblock-for-y... Sponsorblock works incredibly well at blocking in video sponsored ads.
naravara 5y ago
It seems like it would be easiest if YouTube just charged the content creators for hosting so they could work out their own sponsorship/advertising deals and pay YouTube at some sort of capitated rate for exposure. YouTube gets a bigger bank of content and more eyeballs in the site to see other ads and the content creators get to use YouTube for the built-in audience without needing to be subject to the vagaries of its monetization policies. Presumably the content creators would also be able to designate spaces in their videos for ads to insert for their older videos so YouTube can still make money off them without a retired content producer needing to take them down to avoid being charged for views.
ohazi 5y ago
Preroll and midroll ads can't be skipped. You can scrub past sponsor segments.
- jfrunyon 5y ago
  The ads almost always take less time than finding the end of the sponsor segment would take me. (Plus they can be skipped if you have an adblocker. The only time I see YouTube ads is on my Roku in bed.)