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Hell yes, my cancellation of my premium, refusal to give into the nag to turn on watch history, and bespoke ad blocker usage is finally having an effect. I wil
by jondwillis 3y ago
Hell yes, my cancellation of my premium, refusal to give into the nag to turn on watch history, and bespoke ad blocker usage is finally having an effect.
I will continue the above until YouTube removes scam/junk ads, lowers their price, and gives me a way to opt out of strong tracking without killing functionality.
- more_corn 3y agoSo, forever?
- Grimblewald 3y agogoogle has fallen fully and completely to the corporate rot, so you may be holding out a long time.
- delfinom 3y agoPlease, Google has a long way to go down the path of corporate rot. Look at Boeing and GE, their cancer has cancer and they are still going.
- deaddodo 3y agoThe most annoying part about premium is that pretty much every youtuber now just does in-video sponsorship, which is about 10x as annoying to me. It's not easily skippable and I'm not going to Nebula or becoming a patron at 5-10usd/mo each to skip them.
- j7ake 3y agoin-video sponsoring can be skipped automatically with chrome add-ons.
- deaddodo 3y agoI can install Chrome add-ons to my YouTube mobile app, which I use for about 80% of my YouTube watching?
- mgh2 3y agoJust keep pressing forward button (skips 5 sec each) to avoid the ad part, back button if too much. Not only ads, do this for long videos to skip boring parts, this gives snapshots of content without missing much, can always go back, 5 sec at a time.
- mcmoor 3y agoIn mobile phone there's too much hazard when clicking a video that I'm always afraid of when doing this. Be it button to go to next/prev video, to make it fullscreen, to move time, etc etc. At least in pc I can use keyboard
- Konnstann 3y agoSponsorblock is good enough on pretty much every channel I watch, including skipping intro/outros, might want to check that out.
- cogman10 3y agoBut then you forget to smash that like and subscribe button with the bell to show your support on patreon.
- LegitShady 3y agoI still get most of those. It's just the sponsored segments usually. The information is crowd sources and it has controls to let you define sponsored elements and submit them if it doesn't have info on your video.
- anticensor 3y agoSponsorBlock, despite its name, does not only skip sponsors. It also skips interaction remembers, fillers, intros, intermissions and outros.
- saltminer 3y agoI believe it only does sponsors by default, and some categories (like filler) are not shown at all by default. If you never went into the settings, you'd never know.
- anticensor 3y agoYou can ask Blab (one of two maintainers of the SponsorBlock browser extension and database, the other being Ajay) why not all categories are enabled by default. There is also a joke branch of the extension called SponsorLock, that isolates sponsors instead of skipping them: https://giveup.ajay.app https://giveup.ajay.app
- mint2 3y agoYeah why don’t creators spend weeks and cash on making videos for the cents YouTube premium hands them! Why would they need video sponsors to give us their content. I’m not going to buy AG1 myself but until there’s a better way for you tubers to make their sausage then I’m okay with one sponsor interlude.
- deaddodo 3y agoAnd I'm not ok with integrated sponsorships. Cool, that's how opinions work.
- serjester 3y agoYouTube will pay creators 50 ish % of net revenues from ads displayed. Creators take home just as much as the platform does.
- jononor 3y agoExcept the creators are millions of people, and putting many more hours of work in. So their expected return on investment is much much lower.