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Generally an Unpopular opinion
You’re 100% correct though. Sponsors are exactly (long) ads and I have no personal problem skipping them after paying $17 a month for premium. If a creator has a problem with that they should take it up with Google. I’m paying for ad free, and that’s what I expect.
If sponsorblock breaks I will be reevaluating my premium sub. Not that it will have a meaningful impact on Google or anything, but I’m just fucking sick of ads and am not going to pay to remove them and still get ads delivered to me.
magic_lobster_party@kbin.run 1 week ago
I don’t think it’s an unpopular opinion, but I’m not sure how YouTube can deal with it best. There’s sponsor block, but it’s relying on crowdsourced data.
Imprudent3449@lemm.ee 1 week ago
Force the creator to flag the sponsor section and then filter it out. Then compensate the creator for the view using the $17 premium subscription.
balder1991@lemmy.world 1 week ago
The creator is already compensated as of now. They earn more if a premium user watches their video than a free user with YouTube ads.
So the sponsor is giving them more money regardless of whether the user is premium or not.
dmtalon@infosec.pub 1 week ago
Ya, just an infrastructure where their ads have to go into blocks within the video (inserted wherever but tagged as such)