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SponsorBlock – Skip over sponsorship segments on YouTube

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192 points bgstry | 1 comments | 21 Apr 21 07:04 UTC | HN request time: 0.208s | source
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vages ◴[21 Apr 21 08:58 UTC] No.26887003[source]▶
I get the technical justification for doing this: You own your player, so you should be able to control it in whatever way you want. But as consumers, how do we expect the uploader to get paid for their work if we use both Adblock and Sponsor-skip (for the lack of a better word)?

Pay to watch is, of course, an option, but that leads to discrimination based on income – unequally distributed between parts of the world and individuals in the same part of the world. (Yes, I am aware that the sponsorship system leads the creators to cater to the more well-off within each bubble, so it's still a bit discriminatory.)

Any ideas or objections?

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1. Nextgrid ◴[21 Apr 21 09:20 UTC] No.26887154[source]▶
> But as consumers, how do we expect the uploader to get paid for their work if we use both Adblock and Sponsor-skip

Sponsors and advertisers should realize that nobody wants to hear about the same product on every single video, have pages with more ads than content and have their privacy compromised - there's a middle ground where both sides can be happy, but the problem is that one side is continuously overstepping its bounds, causing the other to develop powerful countermeasures.