[HN Gopher] SponsorBlock - skip sponsor segments on YouTube
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SponsorBlock - skip sponsor segments on YouTube
Author : anotherhue
Score : 47 points
Date : 2024-08-12 09:10 UTC (13 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (sponsor.ajay.app)
(TXT) w3m dump (sponsor.ajay.app)
| dangus wrote:
| Also extra useful: iSponsorBlockTV. You run it in on a server and
| you can set it up with the YouTube app on all your commercial
| streaming boxes that don't support browser extensions.
|
| https://github.com/dmunozv04/iSponsorBlockTV
| add-sub-mul-div wrote:
| How does this work, how does it get between the client and
| youtube.com?
| synchrone wrote:
| It uses the tv youtube app remote control over local network
| to see if it plays a video, and skips at the right time.
| ilrwbwrkhv wrote:
| Ha. What a fantastic piece of hack. Absolutely brilliant.
| Love it.
| nerdjon wrote:
| I kinda feel like this is taking things too far. I mean I guess
| ultimately as long as this is not used by many people there won't
| really be any impact.
|
| But if we are going to complain about how ads are tracking us and
| other potential issues, why go so far as to block something that
| isn't? Unless blocking ads has nothing to do with privacy and is
| just an annoyance with ads...
|
| I am all for blocking privacy invading ads since they lost any
| trust, but I question why you would really do this if you want a
| free web to continue to exist.
| dialup_sounds wrote:
| With sponsorships I think people are just annoyed by them being
| repetitive. There are maybe ten companies that seem to sponsor
| every YouTube channel and podcast, and there's only so many
| times you can get pitched the same wallet or VPN before you
| develop the instinct to skip ahead.
|
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| Nextgrid wrote:
| If I'm going to skip it manually anyway, may as well let the
| machine do it. The whole point of computers is to automate
| busywork.
|
| No sales will be lost either way as I'm already a customer of
| the website builder and am absolutely not in the market for a
| VPN and never will be.
| vikramkr wrote:
| It's because it's an annoyance with ads and even if people want
| a free web to exist something something prisoners dilemma.
|
| Also these ads are in videos even if you're e.g. paying for
| YouTube premium so it's not just the free web.
| ulyssys wrote:
| It's not necessarily an either-or situation. It can be privacy,
| annoyance, and a general lack of effectiveness.
|
| Advertising isn't just the art of selling a product, it's the
| art of getting past our normal social defense that someone is
| trying to take our money, our attention, and our time.
| Advertising is necessarily adversarial, and everyone's
| tolerance for it is going to be unique depending on how heavily
| they rely on free resources, but it is a necessary unpleasantry
| at its best.
|
| If I could even recall the exact number of times an
| advertisement of any type appealed to me in the last 20 or more
| years, it would amount to less than the fingers on my hand. I
| used to welcome all of Google's advertising tracking and
| relevance-seeking as the best version of advertising out there,
| but even that resulted in unimpressive and less than meaningful
| ads. If Google can't advertise something useful to me, then I
| have zero qualms about walking by, palm facing them in refusal.
|
| Because of these product failures, and because it is unwise to
| trust a big company with all of your personal data, I rarely
| desired to be advertised to at all.
|
| Individual content creators have the opportunity to give me a
| chance with something unique that they know that their viewers
| would be interested in because they (hopefully) relate to their
| audience much more than a faceless corporation, and can present
| a product in its best, most relevant light.
|
| But if that content creator is trying to sell me a Scandinavian
| VPN service or a game of legendary shadows, you can bet I have
| zero interest.
|
| All this may change as GenAI-driven methods may key in on
| relevant interests based on what I wish to share about myself.
| I'm hoping that Apple's Intelligence systems will end up
| preserving privacy as well as driving a more effective ad
| model.
| elashri wrote:
| You still get these ads even when you go and buy YouTube
| premium that should be actually your way to an experience free
| of ads.
| chatmasta wrote:
| I wasn't gonna buy the thing being advertised to me, so why not
| save us all some bandwidth and time? Or if you think that I was
| gonna buy it but I didn't know it, then you're admitting you
| want to manipulate me, which only strengthens my argument for
| my right to block it.
|
| Advertising is creating consensus without consent. It's
| information warefare, propaganda, psychological manipulation...
| whatever you want to call it, in any other context the
| immorality is clear. If a guy buys a woman a vodka soda at a
| hotel bar, can she accept it and return to her table, or does
| she need to listen to his offer to come up to his room before
| she can drink it?
| jocaal wrote:
| The creator of this extension also makes DeArrow [1]. It replaces
| the clickbait thumbnails and titles with less annoying ones. I
| highly recommend it.
|
| [1] https://dearrow.ajay.app/
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