Re:How much is YouTube worth today?
by tachyonbeam on Sunday November 22, 2020 @09:21PM
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I now pay for premium, but many YouTubers have taken to do sponsorships. It's getting pretty egregious. There's a YouTube channel I won't name, where every video is a full 2+ minutes of sponsorship, paid content, please click like and subscribe, also we have Patreon, we sell merch. Even YouTube premium doesn't get rid of that.
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Those can be manually skipped to some degree by jumping header or speeding up. I wonder if someone could write a browser extension to skip them automatically. I wonder if it could use AI or heuristics, or a crowdsourced database.
Re:How much is YouTube worth today?
by tachyonbeam on Monday November 23, 2020 @09:14AM
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Your best bet for skipping this with machine learning would be to use a textual language model and the closed captions.
Re:How much is YouTube worth today?
by benhurmarcel on Monday November 23, 2020 @09:29AM
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On desktop you could be interested by this: https://sponsor.ajay.app/