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I agree it’s unstoppable (except by YouTube multiplying the amount they pay creators), but there are actually two avenues already available: 1. YouTube could f
by joshspankit 3y ago
I 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.