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Cool.
Still sticking with uBlock and SponsorBlock (skips all the "this video was sponsored by" segments on YouTube).
Add DeArrow in there as well (anti-clickbait)
I'd love to be able to use it but it completely grinds the website to a halt with large playlists and the creator doesn't wanna fix it
I wish SponsorBlock and DeArrow were integrated into Invidious, like with Piped.
Freetube has integrated sponsor block (might have to enable it in the settings first). I've generally been very happy with the Freetube flatpak, although there have been times when YouTube actively fought against third parties where Freetube did not work for a month.
Thanks! I'll check out Freetube, though I prefer to use my browser when possible.
Oh, cool. I didn't know about SponsorBlock!
Doesn't work with really new videos, but it helps.
Though there are a few creators that do such good ad segments that even those are worth watching. Map Men, Aging Wheels, and lazerpig all come to mind.
With lazerpig, it's often hard to tell the difference between the subject matter and the commercial......
Sponsors don't see if you skipped their ad segment.
Citation needed. When you hover over a video's progress bar, there is displayed a little graph showing something resembling a probability density function for timestamps users most frequently skip to. Advertisers can use this information to determine how likely a user is to sit through a sponsorship for a given channel.
Not that that matters. Don't feel like you need to watch ads. Advertising is bad in all its forms.
Skipping the sponsored segment doesn't net the creator less money. They're paid before the video gets uploaded, or at worst by view count iirc.
I'm never removing SponsorBlock until YouTube cracks down on scams being promoted by big yotubers.
So, never.
Are you watching vids of youtubers who promote scams?
So many yt'ers promoted honey, that weird Scottish land certificate thing and betterhelp. I would argue all of those are basically scams.
Oh yeah true I saw a few of those from mainstream people...
The Scottish thing is a scam because they aren't even legally allowed to sell souvenir plots of land. Like obviously nobody in their right mind thinks it makes you a Lord or Lady, but they don't even sell you the land!!!
Honey and that one thing that said "oh you can be a Lord if you buy some land in scotland", among suspicious VPNs and other "problem solvers".
If they pay to be spoken off, odds are it's worth your money.
most content creators starts peddling some cringe beliefs at some point, no loss there.
I meant ADS... not adblock! Fucking autocorrector xD