• @[email protected]
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    11710 months ago

    I am paying for YouTube Premium, and yet I still have to skip over US-exclusive sponsor sections which almost every Youtuber has nowadays…

    • ironic_elk
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      3810 months ago

      That’s why I still use Vanced. Sponsorblock is something I can’t live without even though I have YouTube premium.

    • Norgur
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      2810 months ago

      Yeah, almost exclusively either Us-centric and not even available where I live, or so gosh darn expensive that I just will never use the stuff advertised (looking at you, magic spoon)

          • @[email protected]
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            1410 months ago

            Linus’s video on their sponsors gave them way too much benefit of the doubt for scummy practices I would have dropped a company for

            • 𝒍𝒆𝒎𝒂𝒏𝒏
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              410 months ago

              To be fair a lot of us here on Lemmy are likely to be more principled or have staunch opinions on companies and products - we’ve abandoned the orange R, and likely centralised social media for one thing.

              From my POV, Linus seems to tone down his views in videos, and his writers are the ones doing the research for the video rather than him. He’s a lot more critical of companies on the WAN show from what I’ve seen

              • @[email protected]
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                310 months ago

                Doesn’t really matter if he is critical on one segment but not so much either. Or that the blame is shifted to the writers. But, I guess it’s just to say whoever it is sponsored segments are not to be trusted by default, and best being ignored.

                Like even pro athletes end up shilling and using products that end up hurting them despite being in the 1% in their field like Lonzo Ball and his crappy shoes.

                • Norgur
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                  410 months ago

                  Here in Germany, the national soccer team has been advertising Nutella for decades. I don’t think they eat the chocolate flavored sugar-fat as much as they are paid to pretend…

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            My first impression for anything on YouTube is untrustworthy spam. Don’t matter who it is. It’s just the reality of paid sponsorships, and anyone being paid is going to generally talk up the positives, and talk up how much integrity they have. It’s not just a YouTube thing either. I assume the same for celebrity endorsements even if it is in an area they are an expert in like sports, since product they use isn’t the quality that reaches consumers. Sometimes even the products they use is crap and ends up hurting them. Example Lonzo Ball and the shoes he endorsed.

            It’s just general good skepticism towards the marketing machine. Nobody is to be trusted when it comes to what they are paid to shill.

          • @[email protected]
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            210 months ago

            Linus is getting sponsorship from either actually useful tech software that is for enterprise or it’s some weird niche software or product that no one ever needs.

      • RaivoKulli
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        1010 months ago

        It’s funny how we need uBlock Origin, SponsorBlock and maybe even DeArrow (same dev as SB) to make Youtube tolerable.

        • @[email protected]
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          210 months ago

          I’d love DeArrow to be merged into SmartTubeNext.

          Watching quite some youtube on my TV, and the clickbait suuuuuuucks.

    • @[email protected]
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      310 months ago

      Yeah, those are frustrating. Some channels I watch have a ton of annoying YouTube ads, where premium becomes a must for sanity. But some others have baked in sponsors that can’t be skipped (but no native YouTube ads). I wish they’d reconcile the two. It doesn’t make sense that you can pay to only block some ads, and depending on what videos you watch, that could be either the majority of ads or none at all!