Comment on SponsorBlock (and DeArrow) - SponsorBlock is a crowdsourced extension to skip sponsor segments in YouTube videos; DeArrow is a crowdsourced extension to replace titles and thumbnails on YouTube video

• dwindling7373@feddit.it ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  That’s not your opinion. Ads are, indeed, ads.

  Not all ads are invasive soul seeking tracking nightmares and no, there are not “many ways” for content creators to do that full-time.

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  • jimmydoreisalefty@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    That’s not your opinion.

    Okay.

    Not all ads are invasive soul seeking tracking nightmares

    Ads are ads; it doesn’t matter if they are “good” or “bad,” unless you want to watch them like most people do because they don’t mind or they don’t know how to block them.

    no, there are not “many ways” for content creators to do that full-time.

    If they do not get the engagement or funds they need, they will either paywall or find other ways to support themselves; or they will just not make it on YouTube or streaming, like many people before them, unless they continue to fight on while learning and failling.

    This reminds me of some small business talks; it is a harsh capitalistic world; you give up or keep trying.

    I still say grassroots funding and support is the way to go if they are just doing it for the hobby or for what they believe.

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    • dwindling7373@feddit.it ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      newpipe.net/…/newpipe-and-online-advertising/

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      • jimmydoreisalefty@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        TIL, cool for them.

        I use other YT forks and systems that already implement similar techniques even if they are “good” or “bad” ads.

        I am also for Sailing the High Seas.

        We have a difference in opinion on this matter, but thanks for the small chat and the link!

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        This is the section you are talking about:

        SponsorBlock

        This year, a developer worked on implementing support for SponsorBlock in NewPipe. SponsorBlock is a crowd-sourced database listing sponsored sections in videos, which are automatically skipped by clients such as web browsers, using extensions.

        While SponsorBlock’s implementation apparently takes care to preserve user privacy (you can, e.g., download the entire database for offline use, and its regular querying system is also well made), it targets an ethical advertising system. Its purpose is to help users, who probably don’t realise that sponsorship is one of the most ethical ways to fund their favorite content, automatically skip sponsored sections of videos.

        Morally, it’s a very questionable system. Of course, some sponsoring may be of little relevance to the user, or maybe even intrusive or hidden. But SponsorBlock doesn’t differentiate between ethical and unethical advertisements. It just skips all kinds of sponsored sections.

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