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0 pointsBrajeshwar3y ago0 comments

Nope. There are tools to do that, such as SponsorBlock. I tried it but it calls home pretty often and sometimes does weird things to the videos's timing. I found it to be an annoyance. I think I did away with it, when it advertise something or tried to upsell something (forgotten). If it just ask me to buy it and keep quite and calls only Youtube/Google, it might have been OK.

It also is not available for all videos. Nonetheless, I've a feeling I should not rob off the creators, a lot of whom I follow are awesome, of their sponsor earnings.

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mananaysiempre3y ago

> I should not rob off the creators, a lot of whom I follow are awesome, of their sponsor earnings.

I have never—literally not once—bought anything because of an overt online advertisement or sponsorship. Not because of any conviction, not because I dislike ads, not even because I didn’t have the money, but because none of the things being advertised got me interested even the few times I followed up on the ad. Even if we go full Laplace’s rule probability nerd on this, there sure is a lot of zeroes after the decimal point in that conversion rate.

Are the publishers (and consequently creators) being robbed of their ad money now that I’ve installed an adblocker, or were the advertisers being scammed by selling them worthless impressions in the decade before I did? I don’t think either is quite true, but one is probably about as true as the other.

tech234a3y ago

SponsorBlock segments are crowd-submitted, so it needs to check the server for the latest segments. That said, the entire ~4.2GiB database can downloaded, and you can even set the extension to use a custom API server instance if you'd like.

lm284693y ago

> I've a feeling I should not rob off the creators

If you don't buy what they advertise the only person being robbed is you. They already got paid before even uploading the video

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