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SponsorBlock – Skip over sponsorship segments on YouTube

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192 points bgstry | 2 comments | 21 Apr 21 07:04 UTC | HN request time: 0.404s | 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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toss1 ◴[21 Apr 21 21:47 UTC] No.26895863[source]▶
Similar, I've actually found that they are producing useful adverts, but I'm in niche high-performance manufacturing, so once it figured that out... Also, I'm happy to give a bit of sponsorship funds to creators I like, as long as I can skip the obnoxious adverts in <5sec (that's more than I need to sort useful from chaff).
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1. paranoidrobot ◴[21 Apr 21 21:59 UTC] No.26895974[source]▶
This is about skipping sponsorship ads that are part of the content, inserted by the creator. The "This video was sponsored by <VPN Company>. For x% off, go to <vpnco.org/whatever> and enter My Channel Name" type things.
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2. nerdponx ◴[21 Apr 21 22:21 UTC] No.26896173[source]▶
Right. And I have no problems with this stuff being stuck into content that I pay $0 for, as long as it's not obnoxious.