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YouTube's plan backfires, people are installing better ad blockers
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this post was submitted on 04 Nov 2023
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If you weren't planning on paying for the product, the creator won't take any hit from you using sponsorblock. In fact, the advertiser won't either. Nobody will be hurt by it, because it was a massive waste of your time to start with.
Fair enough but you can't plan on paying for a product before you have seen what it was.
Well, the blocker doesn't stop me from seeing the ad, it stops me from wasting my time manually skipping the ad. I still don't see how that's going to change my mind about anything.
Also, if you were thinking of getting anything from a youtube ad: they are almost exclusively bad products. If you need something, just do a tiny bit of research instead of going with the first thing a content creator agreed to shill for.