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What I find very unfair, is that I am paying for YouTube Premium, whose promise is "No ads", but the "poor content creators" are injecting ads that are directly

by rvnx 3y ago

What I find very unfair, is that I am paying for YouTube Premium, whose promise is "No ads", but the "poor content creators" are injecting ads that are directly embedded inside the stream. Like "Linus Tech Tips". I think YouTube should force streamers to tag the timecode of their in-stream ads, and auto-skip them for Premium users. It's like if you play a game and you purchase the In-App upgrade to remove the ads, and at the end there are still ads.

thaanpaa 3y ago
The solution is to stay away from poor content creators such as LTT. I'd rather want a filter that filters all videos that have '...reacts to...' in the title or certain channels such as LTT that get pushed to my front page, even though I really, really don't want to see them.
dawnerd 3y ago
SponsorBlock effectively does this without the creators help. Even directly subscribing to creators these days isn’t enough, they want you to buy their merch and they almost never consider that a sponsorship. Need to stop acting like these big players are barely making any money.
- db48x 3y ago
  I second the recommendation for SponsorBlock! You've saved people from 10,945 segments ( 2d 17h 9.6 minutes of their lives ) You've skipped 4,006 segments ( 1d 9h 11.8 minutes )
  - spiderice 3y ago
    It doesn’t help on TV/mobile though, right? I do appreciate that a lot of creators have been putting the “progress bar” during the sponsored segment that make them easier to skip
    - anonymousab 3y ago
      I think it works on Firefox for Android.
    - db48x 3y ago
      There’s a reason your TV’s manufacturer doesn’t allow you to install browser addons (or for that matter any software that you really control) on your TV.
elif 3y ago
Yea baked in ads are actually against YouTube TOS but I've tried to report one of the most obnoxious bad actors (they run 90 second TV-style ad breaks made up of 4-5 premade ads with nothing to do with the presenter) YouTube legal basically told me to kick rocks.

by rvnx 3y ago

thaanpaa 3y ago

The solution is to stay away from poor content creators such as LTT. I'd rather want a filter that filters all videos that have '...reacts to...' in the title or certain channels such as LTT that get pushed to my front page, even though I really, really don't want to see them.

dawnerd 3y ago

SponsorBlock effectively does this without the creators help. Even directly subscribing to creators these days isn’t enough, they want you to buy their merch and they almost never consider that a sponsorship. Need to stop acting like these big players are barely making any money.

db48x 3y ago
I second the recommendation for SponsorBlock! You've saved people from 10,945 segments ( 2d 17h 9.6 minutes of their lives ) You've skipped 4,006 segments ( 1d 9h 11.8 minutes )
- spiderice 3y ago
  It doesn’t help on TV/mobile though, right? I do appreciate that a lot of creators have been putting the “progress bar” during the sponsored segment that make them easier to skip
  - anonymousab 3y ago
    I think it works on Firefox for Android.
  - db48x 3y ago
    There’s a reason your TV’s manufacturer doesn’t allow you to install browser addons (or for that matter any software that you really control) on your TV.

elif 3y ago

Yea baked in ads are actually against YouTube TOS but I've tried to report one of the most obnoxious bad actors (they run 90 second TV-style ad breaks made up of 4-5 premade ads with nothing to do with the presenter) YouTube legal basically told me to kick rocks.