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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: 0.235s | source
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wanderingmind ◴[13 Aug 24 11:22 UTC] No.41234334[source]▶
Sponsorblock is not as blunt a tool as people make it here. You can only block specific type of ads and you can whitelist whole channels which I do for some niche channels I subscribe to. In Android, I use Tubular [1], the NewPipe fork that integrates Sponsorblock and ReturnYoutube Dislike. My only additional request in this awesome app is if we can download the video after snipping out the sponsor block sections.

[1] https://github.com/polymorphicshade/Tubular

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johnnyanmac ◴[13 Aug 24 23:14 UTC] No.41240820[source]▶
>and you can whitelist whole channels which I do for some niche channels I subscribe to

Honestly, these are ads that actually support the content I watch. So that's why I keep the adroll by default. AFAIK Google isn't getting any cut of it and that makes me feel good.

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aniviacat ◴[14 Aug 24 07:49 UTC] No.41243633[source]▶
Why do you feel better about using Google's platform without paying (by watching ads) than about consuming someone's content without paying?
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1. matheusmoreira ◴[14 Aug 24 08:19 UTC] No.41243818[source]▶
> without paying

Attention is not a valid currency or payment method. Their service is literally free of charge. They did it that way hoping we would look at the ads. We're not obligated to do so. They have only themselves to blame for their risky business model that gambles on the idea that people might look at irrelevant content they didn't ask for.

They need to charge us up front if they want us to pay. If they send us ads, we'll delete them before they're shown. Nothing they can do about it. And we won't lose a second of sleep over it.