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> YouTube needs to make a way for creators to label the sponsor sections and it skips it for Premium users I have to imagine it wouldn't be long before some cl

• skinkestek 5y ago
  Solution: a report ad button for Premium subscribers. Once a significant (number && percentage) of users report it kt is flagged, - first to the creator - and then shortly afterwards - if the creator does not either fix it or verify it - to a review team or even to a customer panel Some logic can be applied to filter out abuses of the system by: - looking for reports by new viewers of this channel (brigading) - dismissing / less weighting for people who have previously attempted to abuse the report button - look at the clustering of reports in time
  • f1refly 5y ago
    Why not just use the original sponsorskip at that point?
    • skinkestek 5y ago
      Im not against sponsorskip. I'm just pointing out that this should be the job of the premium team at YouTube, not left to subscribers. so: - Sponsorskip is a good solution to a problem that shouldn't exist - If YouTube cared they could make this an even better experience and make sure both honest producers, paying customers and sponsors got a better deal. Today the revenue maximizing play seems to be to add sponsors on top of premium and hope advertisers doesn't realize they are being skipped.
  • pbhjpbhj 5y ago
    Surely as soon as you have this there'll be a service to leak the time codes to non-subscribers so embeds, yt-dl's forks, etc. can auto-skip.
    • skinkestek 5y ago
      Already happens which us a good thing given how YouTube drag their feet on this. Maybe there had been less enthusiasm around such projects though if they didn't have legitimate uses?