SponsorBlock – skip sponsor segments on YouTube

Re:SponsorBlock – skip sponsor segments on YouTube by mkaic on Tuesday August 13, 2024 @02:50PM (#41238344)

I wish YouTube Premium (and honestly, Spotify too!) had a feature where I could voluntarily commit X additional dollars per month to be directly distributed to the creators I watch according to their share of my total watchtime, with some kind of manual opt-out button for individual videos/creators that I explicitly do not want to support. I am already a member of several Patreons but wish I could cast a bit of a wider support net for the people I watch enough-to-want-to-support-them-but-not-enough-to-join-their-Patreon, yknow?

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Re:SponsorBlock – skip sponsor segments on YouTube by vstollen on Tuesday August 13, 2024 @04:18PM (#41239344)

This somewhat reminds me on the discussions around the Web Monetization API [1] a few years ago.

I still wish for a service that gives me access to all paywalled sites or a way to sending all websites I visit a little money in exchange for them not serving ads.

[1]: https://webmonetization.org/

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Re:SponsorBlock – skip sponsor segments on YouTube by kimixa on Tuesday August 13, 2024 @03:19PM (#41238685)

Is that not just youtube "memberships" though? The creator can choose the cost and have multiple "tiers" - I don't think there's anything stopping them having a $1 "tip jar" tier.

Sure, it's not quite the same, but at some point of similar-enough the number of people who actually use each feature becomes vanishingly small and/or the cost of managing the extra option outpaces the income, and it's just not worth it.

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Re:SponsorBlock – skip sponsor segments on YouTube by jaderobbins1 on Tuesday August 13, 2024 @03:43PM (#41238963)

Even then I've heard of some channels uploading ad-free versions of their videos for certain membership tiers.

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Re:SponsorBlock – skip sponsor segments on YouTube by johnnyanmac on Tuesday August 13, 2024 @07:41PM (#41241022)

>I could voluntarily commit X additional dollars per month to be directly distributed to the creators I watch according to their share of my total watchtime, with some kind of manual opt-out button for individual videos/creators that I explicitly do not want to support.

They halfway do this. The numbers are opaque but part of your premium is given to creators you watch, and that cut is based on your watch time, among other factors.

ofc I dobut we'd ever get that granular a control on CC's. As said in another reply, memberships are sort of that solution.

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