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Re:YouTube ads in Safari: you see them now, will you see the... by falcolas on Wednesday May 19, 2021 @03:40PM (#27213439)
That's on the creator, and no ad blocker will stop sponsored content.
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Re:YouTube ads in Safari: you see them now, will you see the... by Dah00n on Wednesday May 19, 2021 @05:51PM (#27214980)
SponsorBlock will. It does require someone to flag the ads first though but so does most ads on adblocker lists.
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Re:YouTube ads in Safari: you see them now, will you see the... by heavyset_go on Wednesday May 19, 2021 @03:45PM (#27213504)
Google could certainly detect when sponsored ads start in YouTube content and skip them to honor their "no ads" agreement with YouTube Premium customers.

That, or they could pay content creators fairly so that they don't have to shill for NordVPN in every video they release.

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Re:YouTube ads in Safari: you see them now, will you see the... by falcolas on Wednesday May 19, 2021 @03:48PM (#27213559)
I'm not confident any automated system could properly detect a sponsored segment. Some creators are quite sly with how they're worked in.

> pay content creators fairly so that they don't have to shill for NordVPN in every video they release.

I'm with you on that.

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Re:YouTube ads in Safari: you see them now, will you see the... by heavyset_go on Wednesday May 19, 2021 @03:50PM (#27213586)
> I'm not confident any automated system could properly detect a sponsored segment. Some creators are quite sly with how they're worked in.

SponsorBlock does it, and Google could make it part of their policy for content creators to mark sponsored ad segments in their videos so that they can be skipped.

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