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Re:The Internet Is Starting to Turn on MLMs - TikTok first m... by harpratap on Sunday December 27, 2020 @09:21PM (#25556124)
Youtube Premium is ad-free
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Re:The Internet Is Starting to Turn on MLMs - TikTok first m... by AntiImperialis2 on Monday December 28, 2020 @07:08AM (#25558586)
YT premium is free of ads that Google serves. But most YouTube shows are funded by other ads embedded in the shows themselves. I wish Ad Blockers could remove them.

How hard would it be to implement an ad blocker browser extention to do it? Query an api endpoint with a video ID to find out start and end times for the ad and automatically skip over it. Allow users to volunteer to submit those ad times to build up the database. It would be limited to browsers, but it would still be something.

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Re:The Internet Is Starting to Turn on MLMs - TikTok first m... by Nextgrid on Monday December 28, 2020 @09:07AM (#25559226)
SponsorBlock does exactly that: https://sponsor.ajay.app.
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