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Seriously this was very surprising. I've been experimenting with GrayJay since it was announced and I largely think it's a pretty sweet app. I know there are concerns over how it isn't "true open source" but it's a hell of a lot more open than ReVanced. Plus, I like the general design and philosophy of the app.

I updated the YouTube backend recently and to my surprise and delight they had added support for SponsorBlock. However, when I went to enable it, it warned me "turning this on harms creators" and made me click a box before I could continue.

Bruh, you're literally an ad-blocking YouTube frontend. What kind of mental gymnastics does it take to be facilitating ad-blocking and then at the same time shame the end-user for using an extension which simply automates seeking ahead in videos. Are you seriously gonna tell me that even without Sponsorblock, if I skip ahead past the sponsored ad read in a video, that I'm "harming the creator"?

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[-] Merwyn@sh.itjust.works 19 points 9 months ago

I may be wrong but from what I've heard from some "small" content creator on YouTube the money from the sponsored talks in their video is a much bigger part of their income than money from youtube coming from the YouTube-selected ads that play before/during the video.

Also, this part do not give any money to YouTube and do not use/collect any data on you.

[-] nicetriangle@kbin.social 3 points 9 months ago

How would anybody confirm whether the sponsor ads are being watched or not?

[-] crunchpaste@lemmy.dbzer0.com 15 points 9 months ago

I believe YouTube provides analytics on this to the creator which may be shared with a potential sponsor before a deal is made.

[-] nicetriangle@kbin.social 4 points 9 months ago

Ah TIL. Thanks for the details.

[-] crunchpaste@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 9 months ago

Take it with a grain of salt, as I can't provide any sources and I'm not a YouTube content creator. I just remember some channels sharing than.

[-] howrar@lemmy.ca 3 points 9 months ago

Can confirm. I upload YouTube videos and it shows me stats on which parts of the video people watch.

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