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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: 0s | 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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account42 ◴[14 Aug 24 08:02 UTC] No.41243712[source]▶
Why not just donate to the creators you like instead of letting them or a third party psychologically manipulate you into giving money to that third party who in turn pay some small part of that money to fund the creator.
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1. johnnyanmac ◴[14 Aug 24 08:20 UTC] No.41243824[source]▶
I try (tried) to. Money's tight now, but on the heyday of 2022 I was giving at least $5/month to 10 different creators. I'd say only 2 of those were even for a specific reward, 3 of then explicitly had no rewards.

But I'm subbed to 30 channels and probably "watch every video but am not subbed" to 10-15 others. I'm not quite at a point where I can support everyone I want to support.