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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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rPlayer6554 ◴[21 Apr 21 08:43 UTC] No.26886888[source]▶
I understand people don't like ads, but at some point doesn't someone have to pay creators for content? This feels just like stealing: I don't know how you can justify it: sponsor spots don't track you and they don't slow down your computer. Yes they are a minor inconvenience but they make the content you watch possible.
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1. stephen_g ◴[21 Apr 21 09:34 UTC] No.26887269[source]▶
That is the bit that makes me a little uneasy for running uBlock Origin with basically no exceptions, but then again, ad tech continues to prove to be so abusive again and again that I quickly get over it.

I figure that $1 a month on Patreon is worth hundreds of times more to a creator than the ad revenue I'm depriving them of, and buying any merch probably thousands of times.