I would pay for YouTube++ if in-video begging was banned/autoskipped.
It’s a peeve I just keep revisiting. Often the service punted is awful too. Ergh.
Fully aware I am embracing old man shouting at the sky.
@an0key at least on the TV app I’ve been added to what appears to be a test group for skipping over those bits exactly (presumably based on data from other people’s skipping) which is marked as a YouTube Premium feature.
@an0key I’m split on how I feel about that. From my perspective it’s great, I skip the ads with minimal effort, but I’m also aware those ad reads are in many cases the difference between making money on a video or not, and if the companies buying them see the audience they want to hit are skipping them the whole house of cards collapses.
@an0key in summary, automated ad skipping is good but a model that doesn’t depend on the whims of multinational corporation’s marketing departments would be even better.
@jon hence my ++ idea. + if you need those in-video, ++ if you dont want to find the remote to skip ever, as youre paying to remove ads
@an0key sadly I don’t even slightly trust Google to redirect that money to the people who’s ads are being skipped rather than this week’s messaging app.