I posted this question because I once saw a tweet that said something like:

“If you use adblock, you don’t care about creator’s point blank”

What is your opinion on this? Do you agree with them?

  • Perhyte@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Plus, most creators now just embed ads in their videos anyways, so ad blockers don’t do anything for those, I just skip over them in my browser.

    If you’re skipping those manually, may I introduce you to the magic of SponsorBlock?

    Essentially, it’s an ad blocker for sponsor segments1 in YouTube videos: it automates “let’s skip this part”. It’s not perfect because the segments to skip are crowd-sourced, but for videos that are fairly popular and not very recently uploaded it does a pretty good job.

    1: And other potentially undesirable parts, like non-music segments in music videos. You can configure the types of segments you want it to skip.

    • bionicjoey@lemmy.ca
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      1 year ago

      It’s not just for fairly popular stuff. Anything with any amount of popularity has a good chance of having someone who is really on the ball. I’ve found videos uploaded a few hours ago by a channel with less than 1M subscribers already fully tagged for Sponsorblock.