alt Hacker NewsYoutube is still very much ad spam even if you block the ads.
Of course it depends on what kind of videos you watch. But videos themselves are becoming more ad filled and lower effort for me.
I mainly consume software, gaming, cooking and hardware news videos.
Huge portion of human effort going to ads is really sad
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I pay for YouTube Premium to block YouTube's "native" ads on Apple TV, but yeah, the sponsorship crap is getting out of hand. I need to look into getting the Apple TV sponsorblock thing set up.
We use an official YouTube app, and it’s all ad fraud.
It rapid rolls through video streams showing a second or two of each ad.
Presumably this is so Google can charge advertisers for impressions that don’t actually exist.
I watch stuff related to photography/cinematography, fishing (creeks), hobby electronics stuff, cars. That's most of it. Some makers like Hyperspace pirate. Travel videos like Japan Maibaru travel is good. Music recommendations, search a song and click on the "Song name + mix". The travel stuff I don't travel myself but the mood/atmosphere is great like Japanese towns near coast lines.
It's funny being a developer you don't watch much developer content like Primogen though I'm jealous these guys can just talk into a camera and make money. It is a skill to be likeable/mass appeal, being entertaining.
I already know the ad anyway, "this video is sponsored by SquareSpace". Bro I'm not going to use square space alright, I'm going to go into VS Code, make a SPA, host it on S3, buy a domain, connect the DNS, setup up ALB, CDN, setup RDS, cognito and then I'll have a website. Oh I also need github actions to do the build and push out the new changes.
Will throw this random comment in. Competition with the masses is hard. I paid a friend of mine $100 per song he produced for me (which were bad). But then I can go on Epidemic Sound and for $10/mo pick from a shit ton of good songs... how does a single creator compete with that.
Sponsor block works great.
If you have YT Premium and start skipping ahead while an in video ad is playing, it helpfully provides a button to skip it. Still annoying, but much less so.
The extension 'sponsorblock' automatically jumps over ad reads in the video, with user-submitted start/end data.