• space_comrade [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    1 year ago

    No ads, except the direct sponsors of the people I actually watch.

    Nah fuck that, those are the most annoying of all the ads. Very very very rarely does a content creator actually incorporate those in the video well, it’s just jarring and annoying and I won’t pay money to suffer those shitty ads.

    • uralsolo [he/him]@hexbear.net
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      1 year ago

      Sponsorblock is unfortunately just as mandatory as uBlock these days. That said I won’t critique video creators for doing what they need to do to get paid, my critique is leveled squarely at the system itself for making their only recourse for payment “produce propaganda for capitalists”.

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      1 year ago

      The “ads” they’re talking about are the ones placed directly in the video by the creators themselves. YouTube doesn’t control those and no ad blocker can get rid of them. To do that you’d need a vastly more sophisticated kind of ad blocker that actually watches the video and understands the content enough to decide what part of it is a sponsored message. We may be getting close to having that kind of technology but it would take a pretty big step up from something like CharGPT.