Comment on YouTube just quietly blocked Adblock Plus — the internet hasn't noticed yet, but I've found a workaround

lightnegative@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• Dremor@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  To my knowledge, sponsors do not give money to Google, just to the creator. So SponsorBlock isn’t needed.
  But I have to admit that some sponsored segments can be obnoxious as hell, so I can understand why one would use it.

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  • moopet@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    When I’m using sponsorblock, I sometimes just stop watching if I see a long sponsor section, regardless. If the poster has like 20% of their video used to talk about shilling something, then they’re probably not someone I trust.

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  • lightnegative@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Ah, yes, you’re right. If the focus is just on not giving money to Google then SponsorBlock is unnecessary.

    However, I also find most sponsored segments obnoxious as hell so SponsorBlock still helps with making the YouTube experience better in general

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