• LUHG@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Sponsor block is a different beast. Should we really be doing that to our content creators? No, definitely not. Is it them or the advertising company that suffers?

    Edit: Actually really surprised about this. Couple weeks ago people are sticking up for YT premium prices. Now, you are against helping the creators you watch.

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      1 year ago

      Huh, Sponsorblock is basically muting TV ads like in the old days.

      Why should I be forced to watch a sponsor almost always totally unrelated to the content I seek to watch, and that the YouTuber decided to upload?

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          1 year ago

          He did eventually take one later on, which I can imagine must’ve been a bit of a painful decision ;-;

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            1 year ago

            He declined the first one, because they wanted him to lie.

            He accepted the other, because they were fine with just facts.

            A VPN doesn’t protect your privacy. It only helps on websites without working https, which is ridiculously rare these days. Yes, it also hides your IP address, but that is really really irrelevant. If you wanted to stay truly anonymous you’d not log in anywhere and use Tor. The only actual use case is circumventing geo blocking.