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SponsorBlock – skip sponsor segments on YouTube

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661 points anotherhue | 2 comments | 12 Aug 24 09:10 UTC | HN request time: 0.425s | source
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voidUpdate ◴[14 Aug 24 07:09 UTC] No.41243350[source]▶
I still don't understand a lot of youtube advertising. Like for me, if I'm being advertised something, I instinctively don't trust it, because they're having to pay people to say good things about it rather than people who have used it telling me it's a good thing. And there are still so many sponsorships from places like BetterHelp, which has been known to be a scam for a while now, and Raid Shadow Legends, which is just a crappy mobile game that is about as "mobile game" as you can get. The only reason I use onshape is because a friend recommended it to me, and I was very skeptical about it initially
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1. matheusmoreira ◴[14 Aug 24 08:06 UTC] No.41243739[source]▶
I don't trust them either. The inherent conflicts of interest makes any advertising suspicious. They are guaranteed to be overstating the pros and understating the cons.

"Sponsored segments" on youtube are nothing but normal advertising, they just permanently hardcoded the ads into the video instead. I don't like that they use the word "sponsors" for that. Sponsorships can be an ethical way to make money. Think Patreon, GitHub Sponsors.

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2. schoen ◴[14 Aug 24 10:04 UTC] No.41244427[source]▶
It might be a noncentral example of sponsorship, but it's been a traditional usage since the early days of television: "and now, a word from our sponsor".

Edit: actually, I think that phrasing arose in the early days of radio!