| ▲ | MattBearman 5 days ago |
| YouTube premium actually has its own version of sponsorblock called skip ahead, it works really well, so they’re not ideologically opposed to skipping sponsored segments |
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| ▲ | xgulfie 5 days ago | parent | next [-] |
| I guess it makes sense, they have no financial incentive to keep people from skipping sponsors, they don't make YouTube any money |
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| ▲ | humpty-d 5 days ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| That doesn't just target sponsor segments. It's for stuff commonly skipped. Like annoying parts of videos. Some video game guy I occasionally watching thinks he needs to sing for some reason, very useful for skipping those sections. |
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| ▲ | gloxkiqcza 5 days ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| I’m surprised they allow ads (sponsor segments) they get no cut from at all. |
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| ▲ | Sanzig 5 days ago | parent | next [-] | | Sponsorships are the primary way YouTube creators make money. There aren't many things that could knock YouTube off its near-monopoly market position, but banning sponsorships is definitely one. Creators would revolt. | | |
| ▲ | izacus 5 days ago | parent [-] | | They pretty surely would not. | | |
| ▲ | xmprt 5 days ago | parent | next [-] | | Creators are already starting to build their own platforms for hosting videos and many of these are quite successful unlike prior iterations from 10 years ago. | | |
| ▲ | sebastiennight 5 days ago | parent [-] | | Do you have some examples? I am still a bit sore from my adventures as a creator on Viddler and Dailymotion. | | |
| ▲ | pyth0 5 days ago | parent | next [-] | | I would point to platforms like Curiosity Stream and Nebula, which are creator driven. Though I would not exactly call them Youtube replacements, as they are more just platforms designed for supporting specific creators more directly (akin to Patreon). These platforms are often advertised as in-video sponsorships, so going back to the original point, I do think creators would be very vocal if such ads were banned. | |
| ▲ | weberer 4 days ago | parent | prev [-] | | Kick is one that's been poaching big names lately. I've also seen people starting to stream on X and Rumble. |
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| ▲ | realusername 4 days ago | parent | prev [-] | | They wouldn't have a choice, your average big youtube channel earns 95% of their revenue from sponsorship. It would either be trying a revolt or stop youtube. |
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| ▲ | anon1395 5 days ago | parent | prev [-] | | Why would they not allow them? |
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| ▲ | SoftTalker 5 days ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Yes, I discovered this recently and it's nice. I presume they are not opposed to it because it's not costing them any lost revenue. |
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| ▲ | disiplus 5 days ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Where ? Like I have sponsor block on a desktop but on my pixel I don't have it and would like to have the option. Have the yt premium but don't see the option to skip sponsors. |
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| ▲ | Andrex 5 days ago | parent | next [-] | | If you double tap to skip 10 seconds during an ad read, it should appear as a button in the bottom right. It does not pop up proactively. It's algorithmically-based on which parts of the video get skipped most often by viewers. | |
| ▲ | celsoazevedo 5 days ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | Firefox for Android supports desktop extensions, including Sponsor Block and uBlock Origin. There's also Tubular, a YouTube client and fork of NewPipe with Sponsor Block built-in. If you don't mind installing apks from outside the Play Store: https://github.com/polymorphicshade/Tubular | |
| ▲ | reddalo 4 days ago | parent | prev [-] | | There's a famous mod for the YouTube app called Re-Vanced. It adds support for SponsorBlock, removes Shorts, etc. |
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| ▲ | delecti 5 days ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| I've got Youtube premium and have never noticed that popping up. Is this platform or browser dependent? Is it only on some videos? |
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| ▲ | Wohlf 5 days ago | parent | next [-] | | It isn't automatic for me unless I try to skip a sponsored segment myself, then it will kick in and skip me to the end of that segment with a popup above the scroll bar saying they did so. | |
| ▲ | bogtog 5 days ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | Might just be the channels you're viewing. This video should have a "Jump ahead" appear around 0:19: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rs5PfanIkC0&t=1s | |
| ▲ | SchemaLoad 5 days ago | parent | prev [-] | | On the TV app, if you hit the forward button it instantly skips over the entire "commonly skipped section". |
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| ▲ | whatevertrevor 5 days ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| That's a feature that learns commonly skipped over sections, ads or otherwise. |
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| ▲ | paxys 5 days ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Plus it works on mobile and TVs. |
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| ▲ | brokenmachine 4 days ago | parent | prev [-] |
| Yes, they really dgaf about the creators. Another example of that is their ridiculous strike system. Look at what happened to Gamersnexus recently. |
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| ▲ | wombarly 4 days ago | parent [-] | | How is this in a way related to that or not gaf about creators? I pay €14/mo to not have ads on YouTube. It's good they have the skip feature for those sponsor segments, since they're just embedded ads. Creators still benefit as my view has a higher $. Well... not anymore I suppose with the view attribution endpoint being blocked by my adblock. | | |
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