I often see the sentiment that YouTube and adblockers will be forever locked in a cat-and-mouse game. However, for many years now, Twitch has entirely eliminated adblocking on desktop web.
What is stopping YouTube from replicating Twitch’s advertising strategy of embedding ads directly into their videos?
Man I’d happily pay for YouTube if every video didn’t spend half of it banging on about their sponsor
You know how you can spend that time? This comment is sponsored by Raid Shadow Legends.
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Or ReVanced… has sponsor block skip.
How does that work? Do these blockers somehow know which part of a video is sponsored material? Or is it crowd-sourced (for want of a better term) with people manually submitting reports of sponsored sections which are then applied for all users?
It’s all crowd-sourced.
Nice one, thanks
It’s user submitted as to where the blocks are, so a very new video won’t have it yet. One that’s been up for a while, and with enough votes, then yes.
Cool, thanks for the info.
Big channels will pretty much immediately have it in place for a new video
SponsorBlock was a complete life changer. 😍 Can’t recommend it enough.
Congrats, that already exists as a browser addon and it’s free. Look up sponsorblock.
If you’re using desktop, SponsorBlock is a pretty good extension for this. Works for most browsers and auto-skips right over most sponsored segments. I don’t think YouTube is fighting this sort of adblock since it doesn’t actually target the “actual” ads, just skips to certain video times.
On mobile, LibreTube and ReVanced have Sponsorblock. There’s also a fork of Newpipe with Sponsorblock.
Sponsorblock is included in Revanced too!