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Almost every video I watch these days has a sponsored segment that ends up taking around 1/10th of the video’s total run time. Better than TV, but if I’m paying

• anonym29 1y ago
  sponsorblock + uBO. Giving into the wishes of tyrants (pay us or else we're going to saddle you with ads) never weakens the power of the tyrants, it only strengthens and encourages them.
  • FireBeyond 1y ago
    Ahh, the tyrants refusing to provide free content for you that costs money to produce, and not get any compensation. Tell us your suggestions. Exposure bucks?
    • anonym29 1y ago
      Google doesn't spend a cent producing the content on YT (user-generated). Also, they did provide free content produced by others without compensation. They have for many years, long before ads showed up.
      • FireBeyond 1y ago
        And? Don't make the mistake of thinking I have any love for Google. Or ads. But you're no better than Google, in this case, taking the free content produced by others without compensation. Except you're also acting self-righteous and superior about doing so.
        • Tadpole9181 1y ago
          Don't forget that Google provided all the hosting, storage, and advertising for the creator's content. So there is, in fact, a service being provided. They're worse than Google in this exchange.
          • anonym29 1y ago
            Lol... Implying I'm worse than the company that voluntarily complied with the illegal conspiracy by NSA employees to spy on the whole country via corporations as a loophole around the fourth amendment, to lie about it to the general public, and to lie about it to congress. I'm worse than them for the grave, unforgivable sin of... viewing videos that other people put on the internet (without compensation) for the sole purpose of enabling other people to view the video... while I had the "wrong" browser extension installed? Am I getting all this correctly?
            • Tadpole9181 1y ago
              > In this exchange Literacy is dead.
              • anonym29 1y ago
                This conversation between us is an "exchange". If you want disambiguation, write less ambiguous posts.
      • jsnell 1y ago
        That's one way of viewing it. The other way to view it is that YouTube pays tens of billions per year for content. Easily more than Netflix does. Now, it is true they don't finance the production of that content up front, but then again they also don't get any rights to the works either. The original creators retain full ownership, unlike in traditional media production.
• Tadpole9181 1y ago
  YouTube Premium ads a button to skip sponsored segments. It's worth noting that sponsorship segments are supplemental income. The more they're skipped, the less they're paid out in the future. Some creators rely on that when their partnership money on the platform can't cover expenses on its own. It sucks, but those are not priced into the payment for the platform to remove their ads. So this devaluation of sponsored segments can be seen in an increasingly large number of content creators having member-only videos that require a Patron subscription. I'm not defending them or saying you should or should not watch the ads (I don't). But just explaining the reality and that there's not currently a great alternative.
  • spacedcowboy 1y ago
    Where ? I'm nominally a premium member (at least it's on trial) but I've not seen that button. I'm about to ditch the trial but I might change my mind if the sponsorship stuff is automatically skippable.
    • Tadpole9181 1y ago
      Bottom right of the video about when the ad starts. I forget the name, something like "jump to content". For some videos that aren't marked by the creator, I think it's heuristics based, so more niche videos it doesn't always appear.
      • spacedcowboy 1y ago
        I can’t say I’ve noticed that, even once you mentioned it, on any of the videos I’ve watched. Perhaps I’m too “niche” :(
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