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Subscribing to YT premium is also an evil act
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this post was submitted on 31 Aug 2024
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I am displeased with premium these days. My use of premium was to remove ads and give creators a little more money. The issue today is every single video will have a sponsor spot that is an ad. So here I am paying extra to get rid of ads and the creator just made their own. Using sponsor block has become a requirement to get past the wall of ads.
I don't mind in video sponsor spots because at least the creators are being paid directly for those. Personally, I just skip em or if it's a creator that makes them funny, I may just listen anyway.
Those sponsor spots absolutely blow my mind. They're there, forever in the video no matter how times it's viewed. That's a lot of trust to have in an advertising relationship, both the creator (who is basically tattooing a person in a portrait they're painting with an ad) and company have to determine if it's enough compensation based on..... feels I guess lol. I'm pretty sure there is some after data but how do you know which videos take off or not? Then if there's any controversy, whole things a mess and I hope they get a lot for it.
Yeah I often think the same.
I don't like these segments because they are either unavailable in my region or they are a promotion of a shitty product like Op**a **, that later will get called out for being from a terrible company.
They're adding skipping those to premium, too
me too, and on newpipe android tv app and on revanced android app.
They're testing a function where it quickly skips to a point most people skip to effectively skipping sponsors. At least I got that experiment.