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SponsorBlock – Skip over sponsorship segments on YouTube

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192 points bgstry | 5 comments | 21 Apr 21 07:04 UTC | HN request time: 0.518s | source
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grawprog ◴[21 Apr 21 21:19 UTC] No.26895576[source]▶
I'm not going to bash this or anything, I see why people dislike the sponsor segments, it's advertising after all, but as someone who honestly could not afford to donate to every single channel I enjoy watching, I'm glad content creators have a way to make money while still providing content essentially for free. I'd rather sit and watch a silly ad than just not have access to the content because I couldn't afford to donate that month or something.
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1. moistbar ◴[21 Apr 21 21:50 UTC] No.26895903[source]▶
There's at least one Youtuber that I enjoy who actually makes decent ads. I'd hate to skip over them because they're usually funny.
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2. icanhackit ◴[21 Apr 21 22:56 UTC] No.26896437[source]▶
Internet Comment Etiquette with Erik and Internet Historian come to mind. Nord VPN Man and Raycon Man ads are the highlight of the latter's videos.
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3. dharmab ◴[21 Apr 21 23:11 UTC] No.26896552[source]▶
Jay Foreman (Map Man, Unfinished London) does sponsorship messages as silly skits, which is nice.
4. shric ◴[22 Apr 21 00:37 UTC] No.26897247[source]▶
One of my favourite instances of this was in podcasts where Cards Against Humanity sponsored and just sent one of the podcasters toasters to review: https://cardsagainsthumanity.com/toasters/

Nothing else was said about the sponsor's product. There should be more sponsors like that.

5. moistbar ◴[22 Apr 21 14:35 UTC] No.26903214[source]▶
Internet Comment Etiquette was the one I had in mind, yeah.