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dspillett · on March 25, 2022

There is a difference there in that the sponsorship money all goes to the content creator, rather than to YT who may or may not (at their whim) share a small portion with whoever posted the video (which is far from always the content creator).

They also aren't stalking you around everything you do on the Internet in the name of targetting.

folkrav · on March 25, 2022

I mean, that's on content creators doing live reads, and YT has nothing to do with it.

emsy · on March 25, 2022

Exactly. So I’m paying 12$ a month, which is more than Netflix and still get ads. That’s actually the reason why I won’t get YT premium.

endisneigh · on March 25, 2022

Why not just stop watching people who do that if you don’t like it?

matheusmoreira · on March 25, 2022

Because we don't have to. We have technology that fixes the problem: sponsor block and ublock origin.

cercatrova · on March 25, 2022

SponsorBlock fixes this