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0 pointsxhrpost3y ago0 comments

Sadly, even paying for content will often keep ads around. NYTimes and WSJ come to mind.

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Youtube premium is ad free.

I know this isn't technically youtube's fault, but pretty much every video I watch has a 30 second sponsor segment (Hello Fresh anyone?).

There's Nebula for some creators and Patreon for others, but not everyone has an ad free way to watch them. Also Patreon can really begin to add up.

And yeah there's that extension that can skip sponsored segments but that's blocking ads, not paying to avoid them.

j1elo3y ago

This is Youtube's fault, as they could (should) require video creators to identify the start and end timestamps of sponsor segments, and then their player should just skip those automatically for logged-in, paying subscribers.

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hoorible3y ago

For now.

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