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They don't respect my attention and time, thought
I mean, the person making the video you are watching respected your time to the point they put in 10-100x the amount of time it takes you to watch that video to make it.
And the sponsor ad is how they afford said time commitment.
And show it to millions of people... So per capita... I put in more time then they did.
Apologies. You are the true hero. Thank you for your service
No not even close. You did not put in more time.
Hence why it might be hurtful to small creators. I'd love to see the numbers on that though, as the overall percentage of people using an adblocker is very low, I assume for Sponsorblock it's significantly less.
Then they fucked up.
I completely agree with you, and that's the reason I block them as well. I was just trying to give an explaination for the app's behaviour.
Skip it all you want but don't act like it's such a terrible inconvenience. Creating high quality content is a full time job and people gotta eat
Everytime the same argument. I don't want to see ads never ever, period. They are useless and annoying at best, sometimes plain evil manipulation.
I recognize the need of income for creators, and they can ask for money in the form of donation/subscription and other methods. I am paying and will pay for everything I want to support. If you decide that your way to sustain yourself is by shoving up fake opinions and useless noise in order to manipulate me into buying something, I don't accept it. It's as simple as that.
If the creators you like choose to monetize with sponsors, you can choose not to watch them instead of complaining about it on a forum. Or go create the content you like yourself.
I don't like ads either and have stopped watching several channels because of how they use them.
"Every time the same argument" is right - "my time is valuable but the creator's time is not!"
Go for it! I'm not holding that against anyone. I'm railing against the entitlement of saying it's "not respectful of the viewer's time" to have sponsored segments.
Like I said elsewhere, I think that stance is ironic because it's not respecting the creator's time and effort. "I want you to spend hours and hours making videos for me but I don't want you to make money from it"
No people think everything should be free.
Shit, I didn't realize the only way some people can eat is by making Youtube videos.
Shit, I didn't realize there were 48 hours in a day.
Sorry, you're right. Creators should work their 9-5 and then spend another 8 hours a day making videos for us out of the goodness of their hearts. I now think it's disgusting that these people try to monetize their hard work
I think it's ironic that the argument is both "sponsor segments don't respect my time!" AND "I have no respect for the time of the creators"
Nobody needs YouTube videos nor is anyone compelled to make them. I'm guessing you don't remember when YouTube was completely free and people just made videos for fun?
Now people quit jobs that support them to do something fun and try to make monry off that. Which is fine, but we're not required to support their hobby. Stop acting like people have no other option in their life except to make reaction videos, video essays, meme compilations, etc.
If nobody needs them then why are they complaining? Just don't watch it. Your problem is solved!
Videos on YouTube are so much better than the era you're remembering. If nordvpn or whoever sponsoring videos is the way for creators to continue making great things on a regular schedule, I'm not gonna make a huff when they take a minute to acknowledge them. I skip most of them, too, but I'm not venting about what a terrible inconvenience it is.
And sorry for not specifying that I wasn't speaking about reaction videos and meme compilations when I said "high quality", I thought it that would be pretty damn clear but I guess we watch different things on YouTube
Stop acting like it's morally wrong to get paid for your work. If there's a market for it, why shouldn't people do it full time? Should Hollywood work for free, too?
Okay let's get this straight: No Ads. Ever. Period. Capisce?
Create, don't create, steal, don't steal, jerk off, don't jerk off - don't care. NO. ADS. THE END.
Seriously, this. Advetising based economy is hell. what's next? a punch in the face every 5 minutes of watching? And don't you dare cover your face, because the creators deserve compensation and punch-a-face insertion by big corporation is the only way they got!
Ok
It is.