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Re:Get rid of YouTube advertising without Adblocker by probably_wrong on Saturday December 23, 2023 @09:34AM (#38744471)
There's one detail that discussions tend to ignore when talking about ads and YTP.

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Now back to out comment: paying for YTP doesn't turn off all ads. Nor tracking, for that matter.

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Re:Get rid of YouTube advertising without Adblocker by pests on Saturday December 23, 2023 @12:05PM (#38745753)
Find better creators. They are the ones making the content, after all.

Very odd to blame the platform for this.

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Re:Get rid of YouTube advertising without Adblocker by Cpoll on Saturday December 23, 2023 @02:26PM (#38747249)
I don't know if in-video ads are a mark of a bad creator. It seems like it's one of the only ways to make money on YT if your primary product is videos (as opposed to having a larger brand, product, merchandise, etc).

So you can blame the platform for showing ads and pocketing the profit... Although I wouldn't off-hand, I don't know what the profits are, and YT has historically been operating at a loss afaik.

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Re:Get rid of YouTube advertising without Adblocker by Crash0v3rid3 on Saturday December 23, 2023 @11:18AM (#38745334)
You can forward through sponsored segments.

Or, maybe vote with your viewership and don't watch content creators that have sponsored segments.

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Re:Get rid of YouTube advertising without Adblocker by satvikpendem on Saturday December 23, 2023 @05:00PM (#38748685)
Or I could automate the process via extensions like SponsorBlock.
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Re:Get rid of YouTube advertising without Adblocker by ACV001 on Saturday December 23, 2023 @10:11AM (#38744748)
Epic
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Re:Get rid of YouTube advertising without Adblocker by vhcr on Saturday December 23, 2023 @02:14PM (#38747139)
SponsorBlock
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Re:Get rid of YouTube advertising without Adblocker by HipOpotamus1489 on Sunday December 24, 2023 @01:06AM (#38751525)
I've added the idea with the ad insertion to my Moleskin, as they said in Russia 15 years ago.
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