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I have some mixed feelings about doing this for some creators. Blocking sponsors and all the ads from some creators takes more from creators than it does from Google, right? Isn’t it the potential monetization that drives many YouTubers to keep creating content? And won’t some give up with no financial support?

Are some of you guys blocking all the ads but subscribing to their Patreon?

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micka190@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
To quote Adam Millard (not verbatim):

If you’ve paid me $5 on my Patreon, I give you permission to block all ads on my channel, since you’ve already done more than anyone watching ads.

Ad revenue is almost nothing unless you have a massive channel, and if you have a massive channel you’re already making sponsorship deals. As far as I know, most sponsors only care about total view count on the video. SponsorBlock isn’t as high-profile as ad blockers (yet).

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ichbinjasokreativ@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
I used to agree, but then everybody gave me the same NordVPN/RAID:ShadowLegends read and it got as bad as other kinds of ads.

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ours@lemmy.film ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Feel free to whitelist creators you like. My favorite (Red Letter Media) don’t give a fuck thanks to Patreon.

It can also skip intros and other repetitive aspects and a hotkey allows you to unskip segments.

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Wyvven@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
I assumed since sponsorblock just fast forwards the video (which a lot of people do manually) then the YouTuber is still ok? Do they not get paid just for uploading the sponsored content to begin with 🤔

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Chee_Koala@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
I do some patreons, I guess about 30 % of my large YouTubers. Did so even before YouTube started the mass enshittification(when I was still premium), but paying patronage to them all is too much. I like the way Peertube operates in that regard. Bandwidth is lower (that’s fine) and when a video goes viral some clients will get swapped to P2P mode to offload the host. Checked floatplane and nebula, but the floatplane prices are just too high. I’ll probably get nebula for this year and then evaluate my options again for the next year.

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