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That’s unstoppable, though, short of deploying AI to detect references to sponsors. The only way to discourage that is to boycott the creators in question.
by acdha 3y ago
That’s unstoppable, though, short of deploying AI to detect references to sponsors. The only way to discourage that is to boycott the creators in question.
- joshspankit 3y agoI agree it’s unstoppable (except by YouTube multiplying the amount they pay creators), but there are actually two avenues already available: 1. YouTube could force creators to add their own “sponsored ad” tags 2. SponsorBlock uses crowd-sourced timestamps to determine when the sponsored sections are In both cases they could be filtered out trivially
- acdha 3y agoYes, but the logical end for that is that they’ll stop have discrete sponsor segments and start mixing it throughout the programs like daytime TV used to.
- tgsovlerkhgsel 3y agoAs a user, you can block (skip) them with SponsorBlock (which uses a crowdsource database that's incredibly good). YouTube could easily stop them by making it against the ToS and enforcing it.