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Oh absolutely this… I’m completely sick of hearing about Raid Shadow Legends, NordVPN, and I’ll be completely sick of the next companies that spam sponsorship money around this much in the future.

I already have a VPN and I’m not going to switch now I know they’ve managed to rebuff the cops once ( Go Mullvad ) and I’m no at all interested in any of the heavily promoted VPN companies that sponsor so so much YouTube content.

You can press the L key to skip ahead 10 seconds. On mobile, double tap the right side of the screen.

Quite regularly I see sponsored content that is targeted at people living in the US. If the product is even available in my country there's a huge shipping cost and exchange rate that makes it not worth purchasing even with a discount code. I try not to spend too much time watching YouTube every day so skipping sponsors for products I cannot buy is a good way to save time.

How many VPN sponsor segments will it take before you subscribe to one?

And now people start to understand why ad targeting developed...

Most sponsored segments are just ads. Often the video creators do something clever to introduce them, but that's about the only difference with YouTube ads.

Yes they are picked by the video creator, but unfortunately, the choice is often not that great to the viewer, sometimes worse than what YouTube gives you. I mean, what good is watching the same pitch for the same VPN providers over and over? Some sponsors are downright scammers, which saddens me when the video itself is of high quality.

Some do a better job than others. ElectroBOOM is one of the best, they are well introduced and presented, clearly marked and also well chosen. For example, he may be sponsored by the brand of oscilloscopes he is using for his demonstration.

There are also cases where the content itself is the result of a sponsorship, this is a different thing an not what I am talking about.