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Re:Yt-dlp – A YouTube-dl fork with additional features and f... by skinkestek on Friday August 27, 2021 @12:58AM (#28324446)
Solution: a report ad button for Premium subscribers.

Once a significant (number && percentage) of users report it kt is flagged,

- first to the creator

- and then shortly afterwards - if the creator does not either fix it or verify it - to a review team or even to a customer panel

Some logic can be applied to filter out abuses of the system by:

- looking for reports by new viewers of this channel (brigading)

- dismissing / less weighting for people who have previously attempted to abuse the report button

- look at the clustering of reports in time

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Re:Yt-dlp – A YouTube-dl fork with additional features and f... by pbhjpbhj on Friday August 27, 2021 @06:10AM (#28326007)
Surely as soon as you have this there'll be a service to leak the time codes to non-subscribers so embeds, yt-dl's forks, etc. can auto-skip.
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Re:Yt-dlp – A YouTube-dl fork with additional features and f... by skinkestek on Friday August 27, 2021 @06:46AM (#28326192)
Already happens which us a good thing given how YouTube drag their feet on this.

Maybe there had been less enthusiasm around such projects though if they didn't have legitimate uses?

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Re:Yt-dlp – A YouTube-dl fork with additional features and f... by f1refly on Friday August 27, 2021 @01:35AM (#28324612)
Why not just use the original sponsorskip at that point?
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Re:Yt-dlp – A YouTube-dl fork with additional features and f... by skinkestek on Friday August 27, 2021 @01:42AM (#28324645)
Im not against sponsorskip.

I'm just pointing out that this should be the job of the premium team at YouTube, not left to subscribers.

so:

- Sponsorskip is a good solution to a problem that shouldn't exist

- If YouTube cared they could make this an even better experience and make sure both honest producers, paying customers and sponsors got a better deal. Today the revenue maximizing play seems to be to add sponsors on top of premium and hope advertisers doesn't realize they are being skipped.

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