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[-] Tygr@lemmy.world 153 points 1 year ago

Didn’t know about SponsorBlock until all this started. So many just found out ad blocking is possible.

[-] Blue2a2@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 year ago

I only heard about AdNauseum because of this whole debacle. It blocks ads, hasn't temporarily broken (as far as I have seen), and I set it to "click" 80% of all ads it sees.

I have probably screwed whatever profile they built on me, cost the ad buyers money bc clicks, hurt the conversion rate for purchases to cost google money, and even possibly made money for my favorite creators and sites (depending on how they're paid).

Though someone lmk if I am misunderstanding something about it.

[-] Tygr@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

Holy crap, now that is causing massive damage to advertisers. I didn’t know this existed either. If everyone used it, the entire internet would collapse because most of it is for-profit now, unlike 30 years ago (when I made my first site in notepad).

[-] XEAL@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

I discovered SponsorBlock after installing Smart Tube Next on a FireTV.

[-] deweydecibel@lemmy.world -4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The other person's been downvoted pretty heavily so I'll volunteer to accept some.

Sponsorblock is a shitty tool for extremely selfish people that only hurts small-time content creators. You can't argue about your data privacy, malware, corporate profits, or Google. Sponsorships are literally the least invasive and most direct form of financial support the average person can get for their content without you paying them directly. YouTubers do it because Google is already fucking them over. There's absolutely no higher justification for it beyond annoyance at an extremely minor inconvenience and a sense of entitlement to the work of others.

You people would go to a little league baseball game and tear down the banner for Tom's Auto Care if you could. Not every attempt at making money is evil.

[-] AtariDump@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

You people would go to a little league baseball game and tear down the banner for Tom's Auto Care if you could.

If someone came out and shoved the banner in my face and didn’t let me watch the game until several seconds had elapsed, yes, I’d tear the banner down too. Because it’s unacceptable.

But no one does that. The banner sits there in the outfield on the wall being unobtrusive and not interrupting the game or the flow of the game. That’s acceptable.

Make the ads unobtrusive and not interrupt the flow of the video and I don’t care. The problem is YT / YTers don’t do that. That’s why Sponser Block exists.

[-] Rexios@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

The creator isn’t losing money. They get paid to do the sponsorship. Skipping the segment has no effect on how much money they get because they already got it.

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