The price of an individual YouTube Premium subscription is increasing $2 to $13.99 per month in the US. YouTube has yet to...
    • deweydecibel@lemmy.worldEnglish
      01·
      1 year ago

      Blocking YouTube ads I support.

      Sponsorblocker is just shitty. That money goes directly to the content creators, not Google. It hurts the wrong people.

      Besides, you can fast-forward those.

      • QHC@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        Does SponsorBlock automatically skipping vs me manually scrubbing actually make any difference to what the creator receives in compensation?

        • bamboo@lemm.eeEnglish
          1·
          1 year ago

          No, I doubt the analytics software can tell the difference. It just sees the user skip from timestamp X to Y

      • bamboo@lemm.eeEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        Besides what others have said, many YouTubers that include sponsor segments get paid a flat rate for doing so before/when the video is published. They don’t get recurring revenue based on sponsor segments, only from YouTube ads.