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• jeena@piefed.jeena.net ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I'm allergic to advertisement, I'd rather not watch a video at all than watching the ads in it. SponsorBlock for me is just an automation of what I would do anyway pressing forward 5-7 times to jump over this section. I will not buy this stuff anyway it's just a waste of my time. I go even so far that I don't mind paying for YouTube Premium because this removes the advertisement, but there is no way to pay for skipping sponsors automatically other than SponsorBlock.

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• gamermanh@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Creators don’t get money for you watching their sponsorship, only if you click through and do something with it

  If you don’t plan on interacting with the sponsorship we then blocking it just saves time

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• SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  The Tuber already got paid by the sponsor. And sponsors look at click trough and conversion rates not views. If I’m not going to buy what they are selling me I might as well skip the ad.

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• kipo@lemm.ee ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  If you want to support a creator, give them a quarter and block the ads. Seriously. That quarter is worth more than any ad revenue they will ever get from you watching their videos.

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  • DmMacniel@feddit.org ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    uhm yeah just as I said in the comment.

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• grue@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Please do not try to shame people for exercising their property rights (i.e. their right to control what their computer displays, or doesn’t display).

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• wreckedcarzz@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I legit hate this take. YT was started as a way for everyone to share videos with each other, not be a corporate pusher for those that want to ‘go big’. The fact that YT even offered profit sharing is awful.

  Yeah, go ahead and support who you like. But don’t sit there and be like “you’re hurting them if you don’t pay them and you don’t want their bullshit ads”. Get the fuck out of here with that shit. “creators” who “make a living” from YT are the reason YT is a cesspool of dogshit now. If you aren’t on YT because of a genuine desire to simply share videos, without expecting monitary kickbacks to support your life, gtfo. The support should come naturally through other avenues.

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  • DmMacniel@feddit.org ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    you could have just saved all of that when you read my comment. “unless you support that creator in some other way” you know, like your natural other avenues?

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    • wreckedcarzz@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      I read it sweetheart, that’s why I replied to it. To reiterate, supporting people, especially huge ‘influencers’ with millions of subscribers, who turned a website for sharing videos with friends and their communities into their career and, as a collective, then into the internet version of cable TV in order to line their pockets and drain the lifeblood from the platform’s original goal, isn’t what I’d call a positive position to be arguing for. Just because we share one factor (that the incentive/income should come from elsewhere) does not make your overall viewpoint good, and certainly not when you try to shame/guilt others for not wanting to be force-fed shit so xXxBigBlazeIt420 can buy another car next month and promptly crash it for the views. Remember to demolish that like button, stir up some artifical chatter in the comments for the YouTube algorithm, eat some avocado toast, and if we get to 3 million subs by Friday, I’ll discount my OnlyFans for the first 500 subscribers! Now, a word from our lovely friends at SquareSpace!

      barf

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• Voyajer@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  How dare you block all of the ads instead of only some of them

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• synicalx@lemm.ee ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  They either get paid by the click, or paid upfront if they’re big enough. Me watching them recite the marketing material for Raid, Nord, Raycon, Better Help, or any other scam/landfill they’ve chosen to sell doesn’t affect them financially.

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• pyre@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  sponsorblock lets you unskip things so you can watch any sponsor you like. it also helps skip all sorts of non content, not just ads so it’s useful either way. you can set it to auto skip, no skip, manual skip prompt, only marked for any type of content (intro, intermission, filler, sponsor etc) not using it is just stupid.

  with all that said, I don’t think sponsorblock affects creators at all. I highly doubt sponsors look at how much specific sections of a video has been watched. they only care about how popular a creator is, who their audience is and what they say during the sponsored section.

  even if they decide whether to continue sponsoring based on how well the previous sponsored video did, the important metric would be the view count of the video, not how many people watched or skipped an ad section specifically.

  if that were important creators wouldn’t split their sponsored sections in time codes they provide because they know it’s an easy skip. more importantly regardless of the creators, the sponsors would simply ask not to do it as part of the agreement. (inb4 legal requirement: I’m not talking about disclosure; I’m talking time codes specifically)

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