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SponsorBlock – skip sponsor segments on YouTube

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661 points anotherhue | 1 comments | 12 Aug 24 09:10 UTC | HN request time: 0.267s | source
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andrewmcwatters ◴[13 Aug 24 21:46 UTC] No.41240200[source]▶
I suspect if I was creating videos and putting them on YouTube, the best way to make SponsorBlock obsolete would be to put a banner on my video that lasted the duration of my video.

You’d then need to create a new type of in-video adblocker that displayed an overlay to cover the advertisement, since you could no longer block it by timestamp.

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1. johnnyanmac ◴[14 Aug 24 03:22 UTC] No.41242260[source]▶
That may sadly be the next step if this does become prolific enough for ads to stop sponsoring individuals. A race to the bottom of quality against consumers who want free stuff and content creators who want to pay rent.