Re:Vanced has been discontinued
by Underphil on Sunday March 13, 2022 @11:29PM
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How is that taking money from the creators? They still get paid, and I don't have to watch a presentation about some garbage I'll never buy.
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> How is that taking money from the creators?
Long term if no one buys the sponsorships will fall off.
> I'll never buy
Of course if you know with absolutely 100% certainty that you'll never buy or mention to others (you might not need/want a WidgitotronAsAService, but maybe someone you know asks about them later) anything ever mentioned in a sponsor spot, then no there is no loss (and I envy your clairvoyance).
I consider it a politeness to the content creators to not automatically skip the sponsor slots. I do manually ship the ones I've heard a few times already, but you never know if the next one might have some relevance. Unlike stalky ads, the sponsor slots have some chance of being relevant to what I'm thinking about while watching that particular clip.
I don't understand your argument. Me not watching the sponsors doesn't affect any of the other viewers of that video. People clearly DO support the sponsors, and that's fine. I don't and never have, not from a moral position but that I've never seen one that resonates in any way with me. When I say I skip them, I usually stick around long enough to hear the name of the product being peddled.
I understand what you're trying to say but after watching the 972658th Raid Shadow Legends ad I just mash the right arrow as soon as I sense a segue to some sponsor because the chance that there's a good product behind a YT ad is around .3% and that's just not worth my time or attention