Comment on YouTube’s anti-ad blocking test gets even pushier with a new timer
MrMamiya@feddit.de 10 months ago
Ah YouTube, the site where I watch a video that tells me in ten minutes what I could read in one. And only 5 advertisements!
I would like to use this opportunity to make more people aware of YouTubetranscript.
Sites been a huge time saver just reading through the video instead of sitting through 10 minute long videos that turn out to be a waste of time that could have been said in a couple minutes.
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Recommend hitting ‘4’ straight away on how to videos, its usually the start of showing you how to do the thing.
I used SponsorBlock for a while and it worked pretty well. It crowdsources where the ads are in a video and you can choose to skip them automatically.
How can you possibly forget the mid-video ad read that is actually a part of the video, thus unblockable?
“Modern problems require modern solutions” -> get sponsorblock
It’s like how they expect you to pay for things at a store now too! Like “I just wanted some milk dude!”
I mean, if it is an ad that actually directly gets the video creator paid, I’m not even mad about those, especially when it’s quality content. Not a fan of those who just take common searches for questions online and create a long video to explain the answer when it should have just stayed as a stackoverflow question and answer or something.
+1 to InternetHistorian’s ads, the only channel where I purposely don’t skip over the ads even if I know I’m never gonna actually get said product
So I’m sure u wont have a problem to stop using it so this doesnt concern you
ominouslemon@lemm.ee 10 months ago
You might want to follow other people, my friend
GigglyBobble@kbin.social 10 months ago
No, they have a point. Because you earn money by views, people now make videos about everything instead of writing something somewhere that can be found by search engine. Video has its uses but it's far overused nowadays and it sucks.
NightOwl@lemmy.one 10 months ago
That’s why I use YouTubetranscript now to read through the video to see if it is even worth watching, since so much stuff is unnecessarily long due to how algorithms push those videos to the top.
Nepenthe@kbin.social 10 months ago
Ctrl+F'ing my way through the transcript of a 38min crafting video to see when they're ever actually going to do the thing they made the video about, if they ever get around to it at all.
More than once, the answer was no.