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Personally YouTube is ruined for me because of sponsorships. It just became advertisement packaged as content. I understand from an economical perspective why
by i-sam 3y ago
Personally YouTube is ruined for me because of sponsorships. It just became advertisement packaged as content.
I understand from an economical perspective why people do it, but I can't shake the feeling that the content is just an excuse and the ad is the meat of the content.
- rainbowzootsuit 3y agoYou are one of today's 10,000. https://sponsor.ajay.app/ https://sponsor.ajay.app/ And if you have android: https://github.com/polymorphicshade/Tubular https://github.com/polymorphicshade/Tubular
- mvdtnz 3y agoExtensions like sponsor block don't help when entire videos are centered around promoting a product. A very popular mountain bike channel I used to follow, GMBN, for example, pretty much only makes videos in order to promote sponsors. The sponsors drive the very content we're here for, it's not just 30 second spots.
- Diti 3y agoSponsorBlock can also tag entire videos of the kind you cited! It won’t block them by default, but the choice of what to do when you find out will be yours.
- mathieuh 3y agoI do notice that the GMBN and GCN videos that are just advertorials do have "AD" in the top corner when you look at the video thumbnail. I'm assuming this is an EU or UK thing, because there are a lot of other channels that do exactly the same thing but there's no such "AD" callout. https://imgur.com/iorhrD7 https://imgur.com/iorhrD7 These videos take away from the channel's integrity for me but at least they're clearly marked as ads
- rainbowzootsuit 3y agoFair point there. That channel would just have to drop for me if the "review" videos got excessive, and find a replacement or no replacement. I'm looking to skip the embedded ad-read sponsorships, credits, the "thanks for subscribing," and "thanks for our patreons" stuff and sponsorblock does that in spades.
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- a_wild_dandan 3y agoInstall SponsorBlock! With YT Premium and that, my video experience is completely ad-free.
- thaumasiotes 3y agoInstall an ordinary ad blocker and your video experience will be completely ad-free without needing YT Premium.
- Pet_Ant 3y agoSorry, but an ordinary ad blocker will not block the ads embedded in the video. Apparently "SponsorBlock" actually solves that. Haven't of it before, but the description is promising. >>> SponsorBlock lets you skip over sponsors, intros, outros, subscription reminders, and other annoying parts of YouTube videos. SponsorBlock is a crowdsourced browser extension that lets anyone submit the start and end times of sponsored segments and other segments of YouTube videos. Once one person submits this information, everyone else with this extension will skip right over the sponsored segment. https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/sponsorblock-for-youtube/mnjggcdmjocbbbhaepdhchncahnbgone https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/sponsorblock-for-yo...
- thaumasiotes 3y ago> Sorry, but an ordinary ad blocker will not block the ads embedded in the video. Yes, that's why I called it a replacement for YT Premium and not a replacement for SponsorBlock.
- phone8675309 3y agoWith YT Premium the people you watch actually get paid even if you skip the ads.
- extraduder_ire 3y agoThey would get paid slightly less though, since the premium revenue split is based on watchtime IIRC.
- barrysteve 3y agoYeah it changed mid-2020. Youtube was a nice place to go. Cheap entertainment is getting boring.