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Moonrise2473 ,

Sometimes the creators do funny ways to introduce their sponsors, I really like that. For example donut, even if it’s a fun skit they even place a progress bar on the bottom. It’s the main reason I set sponsorblock to “notify, but don’t skip the segment”

Other times instead it’s the whole video to be secretly sponsored, like many unboxing channels. In that case sponsorblock should warn “error: no content found”

baduhai ,

Internet historian sponsor segments are hillarious.

DuckOverload ,

Harry Mack does freestyle raps about his sponsors. I think his bars about Keeps hair medication service and Nord VPN are just as entertaining as the rest of his stuff.

Lazhward ,

SponsorBlock already flags fully sponsored videos in the thumbnail.

Moonrise2473 ,

oops, didn’t notice that (using alternative clients)

wildcardology ,

I love creators that make a skit for their sponsors. Sadly only few of them do this.

jasondj ,

How do you feel about creators plugging their own product…for example, when Mark Rober (YouTube celebrity, engineer) plugs Crunchlabs (his subscription/box service for STEM kits for kids)?

Or when people plug their Patreons?

Moonrise2473 ,

well, in that case i completely hated the video. mark rober usually makes excellent videos, but the latest videos were just excuses to plug his crunchlabs subscription or that masterclass thing.

redcalcium ,

Sponsorblock has an interesting stats here: sponsor.ajay.app/stats/

They have over 15 millions segments blocked. Not sure how many of them are ads and what’s the total lengths of those ads relative to the actual video though.

pseudonym ,

Ironic that this is posted by “barqs has bite” lol. But yes I have wondered the same thing. I also wonder how much a certain sponsor influence the video topic. Like if you’re sponsored by Nord VPN, are you more likely to do a video on Internet privacy or security?

bjoern_tantau ,
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I posit that people who really know about internet privacy and security are the least likely to let themselves be sponsored by Nord VPN.

intensely_human ,

Username I’m seeing is “someguy3”

TurnItOff_OnAgain ,

That’s what sponsor block is for.

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