I love sponsor block, it works pretty much flawlessly apart from when YouTube recommends me a video from literally 30 seconds ago, which is surprisingly often that I can now count it on 2 hands as of the last time I got a scarily new video on my feed,
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Someonelol@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
Sponsor Block is one of the essential YouTube plugins. Thanks to that I don’t know half of these companies.
biggerbogboy@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
Railcar8095@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
That’s the bit I hate the most about YouTube premium. You still have ad! What’s the fucking point is I have to get adblock for sponsors.
Drop every single add, including embedded and we can have a discussion.
I’m not going to be paying anyway though
atopi@piefed.blahaj.zone 2 weeks ago
another option is to exclusively watch small youtube channels
Alaknar@sopuli.xyz 2 weeks ago
God forbid someone gets popular and starts making money off of their passion!
Holytimes@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
This is Lemmy. You were required to hate on anything that makes money or anyone attempting to monetize anything.
Everything must be free.
as much as I love self-hosting it does get f****** over the top with how up their own ass. A lot of people around here are.
Alaknar@sopuli.xyz 2 weeks ago
This, plus the “anti-imperialism” which goes so far anti western imperialism that it goes round to being pro russian imperialism.
It’s like a clown show here sometimes.
Mac@mander.xyz 2 weeks ago
And Dearrow by the same creator.
Paddzr@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
What’s dearrow? Downsides?
sorrybookbroke@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
It replaces the thumbnail with a more representative frame from the video (voted by users). The ‘arrow’ was in reference to a trend where people would put a big red arrow pointed at some shit as clickbait. This is meant to stop clickbait
Paddzr@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Thanks, downloaded and bought it. Happy to pay for good software.
Anarki_@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 weeks ago
Downside: Because you’re hiding the problem it doesn’t tell the creator in any way that people don’t like “arrow face” type thumbnails and clickbait titles.
I also use it and it’s great, but… Yeah.
Mac@mander.xyz 2 weeks ago
It changes titles and thumbnails to remove clickbait. Seeing the youtube homepage without it is genuinely jarring–everyone is clawing at your attention. “Pick me, pick me!”