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Re:YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki is stepping down by lolinder on Thursday February 16, 2023 @03:45PM (#34825777)
A sponsorship in a video paid directly to the YouTuber is very different from a targeted ad that YouTube runs. It doesn't interrupt the content in unexpected ways (only ways planned by the creator), it's targeted based on content rather than data mining, and the creator usually tries to add a bit of personality to it. Not to mention you can skip them using the regular scrubbing controls rather than being forced to watch at least 5 seconds.
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Re:YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki is stepping down by addaon on Thursday February 16, 2023 @03:57PM (#34825980)
Yes. It is a somewhat-less-bad form of even more advertising. If you think paying to avoid some advertising is reasonable, why is paying more to avoid more advertising unreasonable?
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Re:YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki is stepping down by lolinder on Thursday February 16, 2023 @04:13PM (#34826279)
It's unreasonable to expect YouTube Premium to filter out content inserted by the video creator when that's not the terms either you or the creator were given. I pay for Nebula and don't see any ads or sponsorships there, but I don't begrudge the sponsorships on regular YouTube.

If the sponsorships bug you that much, use sponsorblock.

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Re:YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki is stepping down by addaon on Thursday February 16, 2023 @04:27PM (#34826532)
Yes, I agree that it is unreasonable to expect this of Youtube Premium, as that is not the value proposition of that product.

The original comment was proposing a new product, at a higher price point to reflect its higher costs, that /does/ cater to this expectation.

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Re:YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki is stepping down by mLuby on Friday February 17, 2023 @12:20AM (#34831090)
It's totally reasonable: users would be happier, YouTube can charge more for it (YT Premium+?), and YT analytics can detect when a sponsor segment (which many videos already label, and which are known to be about 60s long) is skipped and pass those metrics on to the content creator so the sponsor isn't being cheated.

Everybody wins. (Yes this doesn't work for heavily integrated sponsorships but it'd still get most of them.)

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Re:YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki is stepping down by taberiand on Thursday February 16, 2023 @04:22PM (#34826442)
Frequently you can pay more to individual YouTubers for that service, many have Patreon or other methods of providing early ad free versions of their content.
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Re:YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki is stepping down by addaon on Thursday February 16, 2023 @04:29PM (#34826577)
Yes. This is a very, very good answer when it's available as an option.

I do think, though, that if the best answer to "YouTube doesn't let me do <x>" is "pay an alternate service provider instead," it might suggest a market opportunity for YouTube to provide the same service with much less friction.

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