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> So you don’t want to see ads and you don’t want to pay not to see ads? But even if you do pay, you still see (often longer!) ads because people put sponsor s

> So you don’t want to see ads and you don’t want to pay not to see ads? But even if you do pay, you still see (often longer!) ads because people put sponsor segments in their videos. As far as I can tell, there's no way to skip those, paying or otherwise, except resorting to something like sponsorblock, right?

astura 5y ago
shrug I just fast-forward them.
scarface74 5y ago
Yes, there is - don’t spend time watching their content. I hate ads with a passion [1]. I pay for the ad free tier of every streaming service I subscribe to. I find YouTube a wasteland of shitty content. [1] For some reason tech podcasts ads don’t bother me and many of the ones I listen to have chapter markers for their ads.
gaius_baltar 5y ago
I'm ok with sponsored segments as the only ads because they are the least offensive ads ATM. The way to prevent these ads from being blocked is to include them in the video stream itself, possibly by the original author. This has the good side effects of making them easy to skip and, more importantly, unable track users by themselves. The publishing platform can say things like "xx% of users matching rule yyyy fully watched it", but only if watching is non anonymous.
woojoo666 5y ago
Youtube ads are to support youtube. Sponsored segments are to support the creator. They are completely separate. If you don't want youtube ads, Youtube provides an alternate payment method. If you don't want sponsored segments, that's up to the creator to provide a way out
- zimpenfish 5y ago
  > Youtube ads are to support youtube. They also support the creators, surely, since there's a whole bunch of people I've watched who have no sponsored segments but are making a decent amount of money from the ads.
billpg 5y ago
For the app version of YouTube, double-tapping the right-hand side of the video area will jump ahead ten seconds. Not exactly an automated jump but this works well for things like VPN ads in videos.

astura 5y ago

shrug I just fast-forward them.

scarface74 5y ago

Yes, there is - don’t spend time watching their content. I hate ads with a passion [1]. I pay for the ad free tier of every streaming service I subscribe to. I find YouTube a wasteland of shitty content. [1] For some reason tech podcasts ads don’t bother me and many of the ones I listen to have chapter markers for their ads.

gaius_baltar 5y ago

I'm ok with sponsored segments as the only ads because they are the least offensive ads ATM. The way to prevent these ads from being blocked is to include them in the video stream itself, possibly by the original author. This has the good side effects of making them easy to skip and, more importantly, unable track users by themselves. The publishing platform can say things like "xx% of users matching rule yyyy fully watched it", but only if watching is non anonymous.

woojoo666 5y ago

Youtube ads are to support youtube. Sponsored segments are to support the creator. They are completely separate. If you don't want youtube ads, Youtube provides an alternate payment method. If you don't want sponsored segments, that's up to the creator to provide a way out

zimpenfish 5y ago
> Youtube ads are to support youtube. They also support the creators, surely, since there's a whole bunch of people I've watched who have no sponsored segments but are making a decent amount of money from the ads.

billpg 5y ago

For the app version of YouTube, double-tapping the right-hand side of the video area will jump ahead ten seconds. Not exactly an automated jump but this works well for things like VPN ads in videos.