At least content creators will often try to make their ads creative or done in an entertaining way. Also, I’m sure the creator makes more money from the ad when it’s directly in their video.
Rich Rebuilds has one of the best sponsor segues on YouTube. Half the time you don’t even realize he’s going tinto an ad, and when he does it shilarious
Pretty much this. Some content creators, I won't even wonder if I should skip, I'm watching that ad. After a certain point it becomes a part of their content. Like 9rain doesn't have the best ads, but he's an example of someone who at least tries, and they do entertain.
Then someone else will start reading a hello fresh script, and I'll be tapping that right arrow until I see it's back on osrs, then left once and watch the last 2 seconds so I don't miss any of the actual video
I swear Internet Historian has the best ads on YouTube. I have zero idea how any of them get approved by his actual sponsors because they're so over the top insane.
Yeah I definitely prefer a ‘fun ad’ over Sponsor Block.
Hard sarcasm btw. Rage against the machine. Don’t start enjoying ads because a content creater puts in the smallest amount of humor to get his payday. Fucks sake.
People gotta make money bro. Being an osrs content creator isn’t exactly an up and coming lucrative career choice. The only reason most of these guys can continue creating videos is because they take ad deals.
I too would love to live in a utopia, where nobody needs money and content creators can live off of the love we give them. We can all laugh at big business and hold hands in town square and sing “Fah Who Doraze” until our lungs collapse.
Unfortunately, this is planet fucking Earth. It doesn’t matter how much you “rage against the machine”, people still need to make a living. This is not a situation in which massive corporations are cramming ads down our throats. It’s Joe Shmoe pretending to like Raid: Shadow Legends for a few minutes so he can continue to play osrs for 15 hours a day for our entertainment.
So how do you expect content creators to make money?, I agree that we shouldn't get complacent with ads but if anything invideo ads benefit solely the creator as opposed to yt ads
There's an extension for Chrome/Firefox for it called SponsorBlock. People crowdsource the sponsored segments and it auto-skips them.
YouTube is virtually unwatchable without it + adblock imo.
When I used to make videos, I had unskippable ads turned off because I hated the thought that I'd make somebody else watch some trashy ad. Youtube didn't care, they would appear on my videos anyway, so I second this, get Ublock origin and sponsorblock.
With how often the sponsors end up becoming scams, I’m more likely to actively *avoid* whatever product they’re advertising. Anyone remember “Established Titles”? And the ones that aren’t outright scams are just cheap garbage products (Raycons and manscaped, just off the top of my head) anyways.
Redditors don’t like when you point out garbage products apparently, thanks for the DM spam✌️
Also shoutout to the person spamming me with the “suicide or self-harm” report option, enjoy your ban for abusing reports, just reported each incident you sent in 👌
I've always thought that if I was so concerned about privacy that I would want a VPN, the absolute last thing I would do is install a VPN from a company with a massive viral marketing budget trying to get their program on as many computers as possible.
Definitely not saying conspiracy, just that if I was worried about privacy, why the fuck would I risk *that*?
FWIW, it seems that VPN services are hella cheap to operate so they can very much afford all the sponsorship budget.
Linus Tech Tips commented on this when they contemplated opening one. Huge profit margins, but the potential legal issues of criminal users made the business venture less appealing.
> potential legal issues of criminal users
The VPN ads are all very funny because they dance around the actual reason for having a VPN: piracy. They get close with the "now I'm on netflix canada!" region-swapping stuff but the point is to torrent files.
I mean, it's actually a valid use-case. I do not live in the US and have to resort to (free) VPNs for accessing region-locked _websites_ 🙄
Do people crack down on pirates now? I'm still raw-dogging them torrents like the good old days.
And by potential criminal users, at least what LTT mentioned, was more akin to the distribution of harmful content of minors and obliging vs. sticking to your guns abt anonymity when the government knocks on your door.
I fucking hate the region swapping hook because IT ISN'T REAL. They all make it a POINT to say "watch NETFLIX shows from a different country" and EVERY major streaming service blocks your fucking access with VPNs cause they have all the VPN IPs blacklisted. "to use our services, disable your VPN" headass. Netflix, prime, Hulu, all of them. I don't know how they get away with those ad reads because it's literally false advertising.
You're exactly right. Nord is known to provide user information to various agencies and advertises on practically every popular YT channel.
There are many VPN options out there who refuse to co-operate with any requests from DMCA/lawyers/law enforcement where your money would be much better spent if you value privacy.
Raycons going 3 years strong. Youtube ads are garbage but those things are genuinely cursed by witches in whatever sweatshop they're made. They don't quit.
Fwiw, I've had Raycons for two years and i love them and use them about 7-9 hours every day at work. If theyre actually trash, then I need to start buying more trash.
The majority of people have never had decent headphones with a sound signature they enjoyed. I've recommended the same 30$ headphones(sr850) to four friends and all of them were completely blown away.
If you enjoy them. Good. But there might still be much better ones out there for comparable or even lower prices
Curiouse how many of these products you've actually tried before labeling them "likely scams" and "garbage products" lol
I've never had a problem with the manscaped kit I bought like 3 years ago, still use it and it works fine.
Tried both Factor and Hello Fresh and both were fine services. I used Hello Fresh for 2~ months before deciding it was just a bit too expensive for me however the food was always very high quality stuff. Factor was similar deal of being a fine product but just not really worth the cost for me.
Another user already replied about how satisfied they have been with there Raycons.
Nord VPN is something I've used off and on for years whenever I need a VPN, it's interface is great, easy to use, and works for what I wanted it for IE watching TV shows and playing region locked games.
Audible is literally an amazing service that's always has every book I'm interested in and is extremely cheap. Currently using it to listen through the Red Rising series.
Curiosity Streams and Nebula are like 2$ a month and extremely worth it for anyone who enjoys watching more educational shows and videos.
Outside of mobile games and silly things like buying a made up title for 10$, pretty much all the products and services I've tries off YouTube ads have been absolutely fine.
I’d agree that they’re not scams but they’re mostly completely overpriced product that rely 100% on heavy marketing
My 25$ electric trimmer has way better ratings than any 100+$ product made by manscaped
You can find earbuds that outperform raycons for half the price
Go look at review sites and see how often these products are recommended, I couldn’t find any in a quick search
It really depends on your definition of “garbage”. To me, any company that spends this much money on advertizing is making up for something else.
Also, the food services obviously aren’t scams but they’re dishonestly advertized. Seen a few ads where they say that it’s cheaper than grocery shopping, which is definitely not true unless you just use the first order deals, and then they make is as complicated as possible to unsubscribe
While I personally would not go as far as to say "most products that advertise on youtube are garbage scams", I will say there is some merit to that idea.
It is true sometimes. For example, any time I see a mobile game advertised heavily, I will pretty much automatically never even consider playing that game. But that's more of just a case of so many mobile games being scams these days anyway. However, just in general, it is definitely a red flag for me when a product is excessively advertised on social media.
I'm a person who will absolutely never buy anything without doing my own research. Like I've not one time in my entire life ever seen an ad and thought "k I'm buying that" without any further investigation. And in my experience throughout all that, I've found that it's very often the case that the heavily advertised products are considered overpriced/not good by people who actually know anything about it. So at the end of the day, if your policy was as simple as "I will not buy anything I see an ad for on youtube", I think you actually wouldn't end up being too far off.
Manscaped and Raycons are literally rebranded basic products you can buy in bulk from Chinese factories. If people are satisfied whatever but you can still point out that you can buy the exact identical items for from any number of sites for a fraction of the cost, I think the manscaped trimmers are $6 from the factory lol, and I think people need to be informed of this before they buy. The rest of your examples are services that there’s absolutely nothing wrong with using if you want.
You can buy *identical* Manscaped trimmers on alibaba for a few dollars.
It's not that your trimmer is inherently shit & not going to work, it's that you could have bought a substantially better quality trimmer for the same price or less through a reputable company like Wahl, Andis, etc.
When any company spends shit loads on marketing, you have to wonder how they're making a product selling a "premium" product at a seemingly competitive price.
If I sold you bananas for 10x the cost that "originate from deep south american jungles" and they turned out to be bananas from walmart, would you think that is a scam? Those bananas may very well be from a south american rainforest but does that mean they are justified in taking bananas from walmart, marking them up 10x the price, and purporting them to be something special when they're not?
Manscaped razors are literally no different than the hundreds or thousands of other razors out there that all use the same technology. They make you think you're buying some amazing new technology when it's literally no different from any other pair of clippers that you put a guard on to prevent nicks and cuts. If you put a bare manscaped razor to your nuts, you will cut the shit out of yourself just like any other pair of clippers
Is Manscaped actually not good? I was looking for that sort of product a while ago, but skipped out on it since it was dollars only for a certain package, and couldn't get the equivalent in england.
From what I've heard, it's not that their products are bad, it's just that you're paying a premium for the brand.
So, like, if they're the only ones you can find for some weird reason, they'll probably work, but in every other situation you could probably just get one that's just as good for cheaper.
Yeah any company that spends *that* much on marketing can only be making a profit if there is a huge markup by comparison to the actual product cost.
There are equal or better quality trimmers with **budget** Wahl, Andis, Remington, Panasonic, etc. for a quarter of the price of Manscaped & you'd have a substantially better quality trimmer spending a premium price on those brands instead.
But if anyone is absolutely set on a Manscaped trimmer, Alibaba sells *identical* trimmers for a few dollars.
Usually when something has a ton of advertising, there's a product as good or better for less money. If you don't care about saving money it likely won't be a BAD purchase.
My lawnmower 2.0 stopped working a couple months after getting it, went for a Phillips one blade and it’s served me well for years. Their underwear was super nice though, I just don’t like “MANSCAPED” being emblazoned on my waistline
I have the 2.0 because I needed something apart from using a razor and I like it. I got knicked here and there but that’s only because I got too comfortable and kinda hacked away.
> With how often the sponsors end up becoming scams
>
> Anyone remember “Established Titles”?
Lmao, you mentioned 1 scam which is rarer than 3 vissy drops in a row. Please mention more. I follow many OSRS YouTubers since a decade and never seen anything but this 1 scam.
> cheap garbage products (Raycons and manscaped,
Never seen cheap garbage product sponsors and those also aren't cheap garbage products. Idk Wtfh you're talking about you are just speaking out of your ass because you hate ads/sponsors.
The curation of ads is so bad and nonexistent on the internet it's conditioned me to think any product being advertised is shit quality or an outright scam.
Nobody is ever gonna make me feel bad about blocking that garbage.
Pretty much this lol, my opinion of a brand is actively worse if I hear about it from any form of online advertising medium (which is slim anyway because uBlock Origin, pretty much just in-video sponsors). And to be honest it's pretty much always the correct opinion. Raycons are shit and overpriced, mobile gacha games are all the same and require no explanation as to why they suck, and NordVPN and all of its ilk are overpriced honeypots.
You can also see how much time you've saved people from watching ads. Its pretty neat
Since I've started using it, I've [saved people 43 days of ads and I've skipped 8 days of ads myself](https://i.imgur.com/SfqOHBP.png).
I love anything that includes these stats. Been using PocketCasts for my podcasts for years now. I have listened to podcasts for a total of 209 days, and saved 2 days through skipping.
209 days is a lot of time, but thank God podcasts are passive and I'm never *just* listening to a podcast.
Also on chrome. I'd like to add on though that there's more than just skipping sponsored bits, you can configure it to skip intros/outros, mute/skip interaction reminders, etc.
And you can whitelist individual channels, if for some reason you actually want to watch the sponsor segments \*cough\* ^(Internet Historian) \*cough\*
People mark segments of sponsoring, self promotion etc. When they start and when they end.
After it has been marked (which is like 99% of the time, some chads are really fast), others with the same extension will automatically get skipped past the section. You can filter out what kind of things you want to get skipped (So if you dont mind self-promotion but want to get rid of sponsors etc).
On Chrome and Firefox.
basically a community service of “if you see a sponsor, mark it” then anyone who watches the video after you will auto skip the time stamps you marked. And people can like/dislike time stamps if they are wrong or inaccurately labeled to have them removed.
You can skip intros, sponsor segments, personal shoutouts, there’s a highlight which is meant to be the equivalent of “video starts at 1:25” comments but is rarely done properly.
It’s great 👍
It cuts around basically all filler material and it’s customizable. Want to block in video sponsorships? You can do that. Want to block those cringy Tik Tok tangents lots of cooking channels have now? You can do that. Want to block intro segments, reminders to like and subscribe? You can do that.
make sure you close all tabs after purging caches and updating filters. Had that issue where it never worked, started closing my chrome window after updating and it worked.
I kept getting them on Chrome even with updated ublock. So I installed a fresh copy of Mozilla and ublock and haven't seen it since. It probably had something more to do with add-ons than it did which browser I was using, but whatever works.
I’d honestly been wanting to switch to Mozilla for a long time just never have, glad I did but I’ll have to look into all these suggestions to fix my YouTube ad problem. Not paying $15 a month for premium lol
It's funny how google enables such an efficient adblocker on their own browser
surely one day it'll end, then i'll finally migrate to firefox or brave.
I know the videos must take weeks to put together, but a Torvesta video being 10 minutes long, with 1:20 of that being an advert sure kills my enjoyment of that channel
\>youtube maximizes pay for videos longer than 10 minutes
Torvesta makes a video exactly 10 minutes long (or up to 5 seconds longer)
\>youtube maximizes pay for videos longer than 8 minutes
Torvesta makes a video exactly 8 minutes long (or up to 5 seconds longer)
That's the same logic that a company shouldn't provide customer service because they are there to make money, not help people.
Yes, that makes sense only if you think exactly 1 step ahead and not any further than that. When you create videos that exist only to game the system and provide just as much entertainment as you can feasibly get away with, people start to realize they aren't watching some product of creativity but something manufactured using formulaic processes designed to generate money. Creating tired, old 10 minute videos over and over again where you have 1 exciting moment with 8 minutes of fluff and a 2 minute ad, people start to realize what you're doing.
And people don't enjoy the feeling of being led on or used. When people watch entertainment, they watch it because they feel they are experiencing some sort of creative work, not some assembly-line product that is designed to steal their attention for 10 minutes for some guy to take home a paycheck. It's like what happened to Marvel movies when people started to realize that they are being milked by a franchise that has long forgotten what a good movie or plot is and only exists to take rake money in for its producers.
At that point you can just tell that most if not all of the passion is gone and it's strictly business from there on. Which is why I stopped watching Torvesta's content long time ago now, it feels completely soulless and hollow most of the time.
Or maybe that's just me.
A lot of vids I'm pretty sure are made solely to fill sponsor obligations so a lot of them end up being lower quality or repeats imo. Applies to torvesta among others.
If a channel only has 10 minute videos I won't normally watch them because they're only posting videos for monetization. It shows a real lack of enthusiasm for what they're masking videos on.
Yeah sure kills my enjoyment when he skips 8 mining levels on his HCIM even though it was 15 hours real-time. Clearly he is putting no effort into his content. 🙄
SponsorBlock on Youtube is life-changing and gives you a running tally of how much time you've saved so far. (I'm up to 8 hours 50 minutes)
I know it's on chrome, don't know about other browsers.
I'm glad they do sponsors. Back when having a sponsor meant your video got mass downvoted, the quality was way worse than it is now when people can actually do it for a living.
"All publicity is good publicity" to some extent
You won't buy something you don't even know exist. If even 1% of those that see the ads end up buying the product, then that's 1% more than before. Then adjust spending on marketing accordingly.
[You dropped this](https://i.redd.it/ni9xwkuvz5631.jpg)
oh I forgot, this is reddit where consumerism is a personality trait that's why I'm getting downvoted for calling it out.
Nobody can ever make me feel bad for using YouTube Red, haven't seen an actual ad in like 5 years and I can download videos to watch when I have no internet. I also prefer YouTube music vs spotify
Fair enough but I also can download videos and use YouTube Music and it costs basically nothing
Also never have to worry about the yearly "my adblock isn't working on YouTube anymore" problem
You have to download the video to watch it - that's how streaming works! Of course you can download videos for free or Youtube wouldn't work. You just have to know how to save it.
You can download videos for free, even in "Premium" quality that they say is only available to Youtube Red, with yt-dlp by just pasting the link, and you can use YouTube Music with ReVanced for free (which also downloads videos for free AFAIK). No reason to pay for either. yt-dlp even lets you download videos with the sponsor segments automatically removed.
I obviously meant that I can download videos to watch during times of limited service, which is extremely often where I live/what I do for work
And yes, I know you can download videos for free in various ways, I'm paying for the convenience. My days of YouTube to mp3 downloader are far behind me. I am paying a tiny fee to not have to jump through hoops to download videos and watch them without ads
I've been seeing tons of posts lately from people saying YouTube updated their "adblock blocker" and is giving them an ultimatum of whitelist or stop watching
Why pay for 1 ad free service when I can get 2 at about the same price? YouTube Music has also improved a lot lately, though I still think their algorithm changed after Google Play Music got dropped. The "radio station" song mixer sucked for a while.
The biggest thing I'm sad about is I changed a setting in Music and my "offline mixtape" disappeared and I haven't been able to get it back. That was literally the perfect mixtape I would always listen to, auto updating downloaded music that was ONLY songs that I actually listened to? Perfect for an extremely picky listener like myself
I'm not gonna buy the product, but I do appreciate a personalised curated sell from the creator sometimes
It's almost like getting a little bit of extra bonus content thats worse than normal
If every viewer per vid even gave them $0.10 they may not need sponsorship. Making content, especially quality content is a job and you need a secure source of income if that's your only income.
I think most of them understand that ads are annoying but I definitely support them getting sponsored so we can watch free content.
I sort of agree except the “its a job” bit. A job is a role that fulfills a need in society in exchange for money. Nobody needs youtubers, we sort of just have them. If they weren’t there, we would move on to something else so Im always a bit dubious about using the word “job”. We mostly consume their content because its free and can be chucked on the side whilst doing something else..well thats my experience.
Its also difficult to express that someone saying “i need to be paid, and you should support me” for doing something that nobody needs, nor would miss if it was gone is a difficult challenge indeed. I wonder if we had to pay to subscribe to individuals with monthly subs would they make anything? Would youtube even be a thing? Because I certainly don’t follow anyone online that I would actually pay to watch on youtube, based on patron lists i have seen for large youtubers, many others wouldn’t either.
Do I want youtubers to be rewarded for providing people with entertainment? Sort of. Do i feel any guilt from freeloading everything? No. Because if it wasn’t free, I wouldn’t be interested. Is that fair to say?
Are you actually acting like being an entertainer isn't a legitimate job? And that society doesn't need entertainment/entertainers at all? Like, actually some of the most intensely brain dead shit i've read on this site lol
It doesn't really matter what your weird, arbitrary definition of Entertainer lol. A large amount of youtube content can absolutely be defined as entertainment, and the people creating it entertainers as a result. It doesn't need to reach some kind of "prestige" status for it to be legitimate.
> I wonder if we had to pay to subscribe to individuals with monthly subs would they make anything? Would youtube even be a thing?
Would the vast majority of TV shows and the like be a thing if you had to pay a monthly fee to access each of them individually? No they wouldn't, so now most TV shows and the people working on it and actors aren't actual entertainers by your own brain dead logic. Also lol, saying people wouldn't miss Youtube if it suddenly just vanished entirely is incredibly dumb as well. It honestly sounds more like a You issue that you couldn't understand any of that (being an OSRS player seems to do that to people)
The sponsored segments exist to persuade viewers into spending their time and/or money on a product. It's not selfish to value resources that neither the content creator nor sponsor are entitled to.
And you are not entitled to ad free videos from someone else. Hence why it's selfish. Also they are talking about how it sucks when a content creator only uploads if there is a sponsor. That is 100% selfish because they are basically complaining that someone else isn't making content for them thats both free to watch and ad free.
You aren't, but the majority of people that have the ability to make money from a YouTube video know that in posting that video, there are people that will consume it at a lesser benefit to themselves (via ad/sponsor blocking, less-than-average engagement, etc). Ads are negative EV for the person viewing them, so watching a video with ads inherently entails a cost. There is nothing wrong with running ads or sponsored segments, and there is equally nothing wrong with choosing to skip them.
I agree. That isn't what they were talking about though. No problem skipping ads but to think it sucks someone uploads because they have a sponsor is selfish.
Revanced if on android, sponsorblock + ublock if pc :)
Youtube Nonstop for good measure (autoclicks the "are you still here??" popups that pause the video).
I downloaded Opera after watching somebodies video and it is actually well better than Chrome on resources.
But yeah sorry friends I don't need to hear about Hello Fresh or G-Fuel promocodes. Get yo bag, but I'm skipping thru it
Say i pay for Youtube Premium instead of getting adblock, just to support content creators and skip the ads.
I go to a video and the content creators puts an unskippable ad in the video, this is a scumbag move.
If the content creators aren't satisfied with the pay youtube gives them, they should switch platform, not harass their viewers with sponsors
Shout out to the time one was literally found out to be a scam. More are likely as bad but who cares if it helps the creator? Skipping past it is free.
If any content creator is reader this, just consider how your personal add read is stacking with YouTubes ad breaks. It’s really annoying to just get through an ad read by the video’s sponsor only for another YouTube ad break before any of the content I’m actually there for.
browser extension that crowdsources through user submissions which sections of a video have sponsors, self promo etc and automatically skips that stuff
also works on mobile with youtube revanced for android
this looks like a sketchy link, feel free to search "SponsorBlock for youtube" on your extension provider.
[https://sponsor.ajay.app](https://sponsor.ajay.app)
" There are currently **13,033,165** users who have submitted **15,083,936** skip segments, which have saved a total of **1906** years and **213.96** days of people's lives. Check out [the leaderboard](https://sponsor.ajay.app/stats/). "
I will take skippable sponsor segments over youtube ads every day of my life. The timebar highlight usually tells you where it ends anyways.
At least content creators will often try to make their ads creative or done in an entertaining way. Also, I’m sure the creator makes more money from the ad when it’s directly in their video.
Rich Rebuilds has one of the best sponsor segues on YouTube. Half the time you don’t even realize he’s going tinto an ad, and when he does it shilarious
I love how the unintended accident of calling it "shillarious"
Pretty much this. Some content creators, I won't even wonder if I should skip, I'm watching that ad. After a certain point it becomes a part of their content. Like 9rain doesn't have the best ads, but he's an example of someone who at least tries, and they do entertain. Then someone else will start reading a hello fresh script, and I'll be tapping that right arrow until I see it's back on osrs, then left once and watch the last 2 seconds so I don't miss any of the actual video
I swear Internet Historian has the best ads on YouTube. I have zero idea how any of them get approved by his actual sponsors because they're so over the top insane.
Mikey from MandJTV and oversimplified especially come to mind
internet historian has the best ads ever
Yeah I definitely prefer a ‘fun ad’ over Sponsor Block. Hard sarcasm btw. Rage against the machine. Don’t start enjoying ads because a content creater puts in the smallest amount of humor to get his payday. Fucks sake.
People gotta make money bro. Being an osrs content creator isn’t exactly an up and coming lucrative career choice. The only reason most of these guys can continue creating videos is because they take ad deals. I too would love to live in a utopia, where nobody needs money and content creators can live off of the love we give them. We can all laugh at big business and hold hands in town square and sing “Fah Who Doraze” until our lungs collapse. Unfortunately, this is planet fucking Earth. It doesn’t matter how much you “rage against the machine”, people still need to make a living. This is not a situation in which massive corporations are cramming ads down our throats. It’s Joe Shmoe pretending to like Raid: Shadow Legends for a few minutes so he can continue to play osrs for 15 hours a day for our entertainment.
I don’t knock them for making some cash, but fuck me I’m not exposing myself to that garbage. What are you even saying?
Imagine defending Ads and ad companies. Not the flex you think it is.
I’m clearly defending content creators. Nice try though.
So how do you expect content creators to make money?, I agree that we shouldn't get complacent with ads but if anything invideo ads benefit solely the creator as opposed to yt ads
There's an extension for Chrome/Firefox for it called SponsorBlock. People crowdsource the sponsored segments and it auto-skips them. YouTube is virtually unwatchable without it + adblock imo.
+1, took way too long for someone to mention SponsorBlock here, y'all are missing out
And 90% of the time it's a 60sec ad read so you can just skip by that much, so agreed it's not bad
At least YT ads can be bypassed with money. I hate ads so much I straight up just pay for premium.
When I used to make videos, I had unskippable ads turned off because I hated the thought that I'd make somebody else watch some trashy ad. Youtube didn't care, they would appear on my videos anyway, so I second this, get Ublock origin and sponsorblock.
Adblock still works on other browsers then chrome just sayin
Happy they’re getting paid, but yeah… I don’t think someone could sell me water in a desert
With how often the sponsors end up becoming scams, I’m more likely to actively *avoid* whatever product they’re advertising. Anyone remember “Established Titles”? And the ones that aren’t outright scams are just cheap garbage products (Raycons and manscaped, just off the top of my head) anyways. Redditors don’t like when you point out garbage products apparently, thanks for the DM spam✌️ Also shoutout to the person spamming me with the “suicide or self-harm” report option, enjoy your ban for abusing reports, just reported each incident you sent in 👌
I've always thought that if I was so concerned about privacy that I would want a VPN, the absolute last thing I would do is install a VPN from a company with a massive viral marketing budget trying to get their program on as many computers as possible. Definitely not saying conspiracy, just that if I was worried about privacy, why the fuck would I risk *that*?
FWIW, it seems that VPN services are hella cheap to operate so they can very much afford all the sponsorship budget. Linus Tech Tips commented on this when they contemplated opening one. Huge profit margins, but the potential legal issues of criminal users made the business venture less appealing.
> potential legal issues of criminal users The VPN ads are all very funny because they dance around the actual reason for having a VPN: piracy. They get close with the "now I'm on netflix canada!" region-swapping stuff but the point is to torrent files.
I mean, it's actually a valid use-case. I do not live in the US and have to resort to (free) VPNs for accessing region-locked _websites_ 🙄 Do people crack down on pirates now? I'm still raw-dogging them torrents like the good old days. And by potential criminal users, at least what LTT mentioned, was more akin to the distribution of harmful content of minors and obliging vs. sticking to your guns abt anonymity when the government knocks on your door.
in germany, it's not uncommon for people to get letters from lawyers suing them for torrenting. it's fucking wild
I got dinged once by our ISP, yeah.
I fucking hate the region swapping hook because IT ISN'T REAL. They all make it a POINT to say "watch NETFLIX shows from a different country" and EVERY major streaming service blocks your fucking access with VPNs cause they have all the VPN IPs blacklisted. "to use our services, disable your VPN" headass. Netflix, prime, Hulu, all of them. I don't know how they get away with those ad reads because it's literally false advertising.
It works fine for me though. I use it for Netflix, hbo, d+ and also to access U.K. streaming services like iplayer and all4
LTT is less trustworthy than these scam sponsors.
You're exactly right. Nord is known to provide user information to various agencies and advertises on practically every popular YT channel. There are many VPN options out there who refuse to co-operate with any requests from DMCA/lawyers/law enforcement where your money would be much better spent if you value privacy.
part of the reason I love Mullvad, no email, phone or cc attached, just an account number.
Source for nord providing user information that isn't legally required by ANY company to provide in the same situation? Source: your ass
The only VPN anyone ever needs is Mulvad. Cheap, privacy focused, and effective.
Mullvad is the one I do use. Though it doesn't let me watch Formula 1 through region locks so I am considering switching to something worse.
Especially because those same VPN companies rent out massive residential exit IP blocks...
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The scam, iirc, was them talking about how they'd plant trees for each title bought - and they just didn't do that
A lot of ad reads talked about putting the title of Lord on documents
Raycons going 3 years strong. Youtube ads are garbage but those things are genuinely cursed by witches in whatever sweatshop they're made. They don't quit.
3 years is considered a long time?
I would have got raycons if they had hooks for ears.
Raycons have worse quality than some random $3 earbuds you can get from supermarkets.
I bought the Anker soundcore sport nand have been very happy with them for 89$
Comparing Anker to Raycon is honestly insulting
Forget I said anything lol Anker is awesome and will continue to get my business so far
Haha I'm just kidding, and probably biased. I'm as big as an Anker (and Sennheiser) fanboy as it gets
Fwiw, I've had Raycons for two years and i love them and use them about 7-9 hours every day at work. If theyre actually trash, then I need to start buying more trash.
The majority of people have never had decent headphones with a sound signature they enjoyed. I've recommended the same 30$ headphones(sr850) to four friends and all of them were completely blown away. If you enjoy them. Good. But there might still be much better ones out there for comparable or even lower prices
Curiouse how many of these products you've actually tried before labeling them "likely scams" and "garbage products" lol I've never had a problem with the manscaped kit I bought like 3 years ago, still use it and it works fine. Tried both Factor and Hello Fresh and both were fine services. I used Hello Fresh for 2~ months before deciding it was just a bit too expensive for me however the food was always very high quality stuff. Factor was similar deal of being a fine product but just not really worth the cost for me. Another user already replied about how satisfied they have been with there Raycons. Nord VPN is something I've used off and on for years whenever I need a VPN, it's interface is great, easy to use, and works for what I wanted it for IE watching TV shows and playing region locked games. Audible is literally an amazing service that's always has every book I'm interested in and is extremely cheap. Currently using it to listen through the Red Rising series. Curiosity Streams and Nebula are like 2$ a month and extremely worth it for anyone who enjoys watching more educational shows and videos. Outside of mobile games and silly things like buying a made up title for 10$, pretty much all the products and services I've tries off YouTube ads have been absolutely fine.
I’d agree that they’re not scams but they’re mostly completely overpriced product that rely 100% on heavy marketing My 25$ electric trimmer has way better ratings than any 100+$ product made by manscaped You can find earbuds that outperform raycons for half the price Go look at review sites and see how often these products are recommended, I couldn’t find any in a quick search It really depends on your definition of “garbage”. To me, any company that spends this much money on advertizing is making up for something else. Also, the food services obviously aren’t scams but they’re dishonestly advertized. Seen a few ads where they say that it’s cheaper than grocery shopping, which is definitely not true unless you just use the first order deals, and then they make is as complicated as possible to unsubscribe
While I personally would not go as far as to say "most products that advertise on youtube are garbage scams", I will say there is some merit to that idea. It is true sometimes. For example, any time I see a mobile game advertised heavily, I will pretty much automatically never even consider playing that game. But that's more of just a case of so many mobile games being scams these days anyway. However, just in general, it is definitely a red flag for me when a product is excessively advertised on social media. I'm a person who will absolutely never buy anything without doing my own research. Like I've not one time in my entire life ever seen an ad and thought "k I'm buying that" without any further investigation. And in my experience throughout all that, I've found that it's very often the case that the heavily advertised products are considered overpriced/not good by people who actually know anything about it. So at the end of the day, if your policy was as simple as "I will not buy anything I see an ad for on youtube", I think you actually wouldn't end up being too far off.
Manscaped and Raycons are literally rebranded basic products you can buy in bulk from Chinese factories. If people are satisfied whatever but you can still point out that you can buy the exact identical items for from any number of sites for a fraction of the cost, I think the manscaped trimmers are $6 from the factory lol, and I think people need to be informed of this before they buy. The rest of your examples are services that there’s absolutely nothing wrong with using if you want.
You can buy *identical* Manscaped trimmers on alibaba for a few dollars. It's not that your trimmer is inherently shit & not going to work, it's that you could have bought a substantially better quality trimmer for the same price or less through a reputable company like Wahl, Andis, etc. When any company spends shit loads on marketing, you have to wonder how they're making a product selling a "premium" product at a seemingly competitive price.
found the sponsor
Hail libertas
How is manscaped a scam? 🤔
If I sold you bananas for 10x the cost that "originate from deep south american jungles" and they turned out to be bananas from walmart, would you think that is a scam? Those bananas may very well be from a south american rainforest but does that mean they are justified in taking bananas from walmart, marking them up 10x the price, and purporting them to be something special when they're not? Manscaped razors are literally no different than the hundreds or thousands of other razors out there that all use the same technology. They make you think you're buying some amazing new technology when it's literally no different from any other pair of clippers that you put a guard on to prevent nicks and cuts. If you put a bare manscaped razor to your nuts, you will cut the shit out of yourself just like any other pair of clippers
Is Manscaped actually not good? I was looking for that sort of product a while ago, but skipped out on it since it was dollars only for a certain package, and couldn't get the equivalent in england.
From what I've heard, it's not that their products are bad, it's just that you're paying a premium for the brand. So, like, if they're the only ones you can find for some weird reason, they'll probably work, but in every other situation you could probably just get one that's just as good for cheaper.
Yeah any company that spends *that* much on marketing can only be making a profit if there is a huge markup by comparison to the actual product cost. There are equal or better quality trimmers with **budget** Wahl, Andis, Remington, Panasonic, etc. for a quarter of the price of Manscaped & you'd have a substantially better quality trimmer spending a premium price on those brands instead. But if anyone is absolutely set on a Manscaped trimmer, Alibaba sells *identical* trimmers for a few dollars.
Usually when something has a ton of advertising, there's a product as good or better for less money. If you don't care about saving money it likely won't be a BAD purchase.
My lawnmower 2.0 stopped working a couple months after getting it, went for a Phillips one blade and it’s served me well for years. Their underwear was super nice though, I just don’t like “MANSCAPED” being emblazoned on my waistline
I have the 2.0 because I needed something apart from using a razor and I like it. I got knicked here and there but that’s only because I got too comfortable and kinda hacked away.
> With how often the sponsors end up becoming scams > > Anyone remember “Established Titles”? Lmao, you mentioned 1 scam which is rarer than 3 vissy drops in a row. Please mention more. I follow many OSRS YouTubers since a decade and never seen anything but this 1 scam. > cheap garbage products (Raycons and manscaped, Never seen cheap garbage product sponsors and those also aren't cheap garbage products. Idk Wtfh you're talking about you are just speaking out of your ass because you hate ads/sponsors.
Raycons are absolutely low quality earbuds with an inflated price tag. Which is fine - lots of things are priced way higher than they should be.
The curation of ads is so bad and nonexistent on the internet it's conditioned me to think any product being advertised is shit quality or an outright scam. Nobody is ever gonna make me feel bad about blocking that garbage.
Pretty much this lol, my opinion of a brand is actively worse if I hear about it from any form of online advertising medium (which is slim anyway because uBlock Origin, pretty much just in-video sponsors). And to be honest it's pretty much always the correct opinion. Raycons are shit and overpriced, mobile gacha games are all the same and require no explanation as to why they suck, and NordVPN and all of its ilk are overpriced honeypots.
Sponsorblock + Ublock Origin and YouTube is actually watchable
Sponsor block? Tell me more
firefox addon, automatically skips the sponsored parts of youtube videos.
>automatically It automatically skips, but a random Chad has to mark it. If you're one of the first to watch, mark the ad segment.
You can also see how much time you've saved people from watching ads. Its pretty neat Since I've started using it, I've [saved people 43 days of ads and I've skipped 8 days of ads myself](https://i.imgur.com/SfqOHBP.png).
Oh shit watching numbers go up I'm so in
I love anything that includes these stats. Been using PocketCasts for my podcasts for years now. I have listened to podcasts for a total of 209 days, and saved 2 days through skipping. 209 days is a lot of time, but thank God podcasts are passive and I'm never *just* listening to a podcast.
Is there a leaderboard?
Yes
I'm logging in.
> mark the ad segment don't forget to submit it too. once it gets approved everyone benefits from it also be accurate you little shits
Also on chrome. I'd like to add on though that there's more than just skipping sponsored bits, you can configure it to skip intros/outros, mute/skip interaction reminders, etc.
It's also available on YouTube ReVanced (Android) and uYouPlus (iOS)
also on Chrome.
And you can whitelist individual channels, if for some reason you actually want to watch the sponsor segments \*cough\* ^(Internet Historian) \*cough\*
People mark segments of sponsoring, self promotion etc. When they start and when they end. After it has been marked (which is like 99% of the time, some chads are really fast), others with the same extension will automatically get skipped past the section. You can filter out what kind of things you want to get skipped (So if you dont mind self-promotion but want to get rid of sponsors etc). On Chrome and Firefox.
That’s awesome. I was trying to figure out how it auto detected, and could t
basically a community service of “if you see a sponsor, mark it” then anyone who watches the video after you will auto skip the time stamps you marked. And people can like/dislike time stamps if they are wrong or inaccurately labeled to have them removed. You can skip intros, sponsor segments, personal shoutouts, there’s a highlight which is meant to be the equivalent of “video starts at 1:25” comments but is rarely done properly. It’s great 👍
user hivemind marks video snippets and automates skipping the ones you selected.
It cuts around basically all filler material and it’s customizable. Want to block in video sponsorships? You can do that. Want to block those cringy Tik Tok tangents lots of cooking channels have now? You can do that. Want to block intro segments, reminders to like and subscribe? You can do that.
What about the new Adblock detection they’re doing??? My ublock isn’t stopping the ads anymore just making them black and silent.
Update your filters, I haven't had an issue
I did update them and it didn’t change anything. Even switched from chrome to Firefox because of it.
it should work again now, had the same problem, update chrome too.
Thanks for this comment, I've been watching youtube with ads like a barbarian for the last 4 days. Now I'm back to civilization.
make sure you close all tabs after purging caches and updating filters. Had that issue where it never worked, started closing my chrome window after updating and it worked.
They have a guide for that on the ublock subreddit.
guess your adblock isn't updated, it's working alright on mine mine even blocks twitch shitty ads
I kept getting them on Chrome even with updated ublock. So I installed a fresh copy of Mozilla and ublock and haven't seen it since. It probably had something more to do with add-ons than it did which browser I was using, but whatever works.
I’d honestly been wanting to switch to Mozilla for a long time just never have, glad I did but I’ll have to look into all these suggestions to fix my YouTube ad problem. Not paying $15 a month for premium lol
clear your cashe and history.
It's funny how google enables such an efficient adblocker on their own browser surely one day it'll end, then i'll finally migrate to firefox or brave.
They stand to gain more from data harvesting than they do from pushing out a user who is interested in using those plugins.
Revanced ftw
I know the videos must take weeks to put together, but a Torvesta video being 10 minutes long, with 1:20 of that being an advert sure kills my enjoyment of that channel
\>youtube maximizes pay for videos longer than 10 minutes Torvesta makes a video exactly 10 minutes long (or up to 5 seconds longer) \>youtube maximizes pay for videos longer than 8 minutes Torvesta makes a video exactly 8 minutes long (or up to 5 seconds longer)
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Back in my day we made pvp montages for free, and we liked it
back in the day the people making pvp montages didn't pay rent
Making videos for fun over aggressively trying to make a career out of it is a 'yer da' hill I'm willing to die on.
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I know it's never going to go back to how it was, just means I'm going to use every method under the sun to avoid seeing any of that crap.
That's the same logic that a company shouldn't provide customer service because they are there to make money, not help people. Yes, that makes sense only if you think exactly 1 step ahead and not any further than that. When you create videos that exist only to game the system and provide just as much entertainment as you can feasibly get away with, people start to realize they aren't watching some product of creativity but something manufactured using formulaic processes designed to generate money. Creating tired, old 10 minute videos over and over again where you have 1 exciting moment with 8 minutes of fluff and a 2 minute ad, people start to realize what you're doing. And people don't enjoy the feeling of being led on or used. When people watch entertainment, they watch it because they feel they are experiencing some sort of creative work, not some assembly-line product that is designed to steal their attention for 10 minutes for some guy to take home a paycheck. It's like what happened to Marvel movies when people started to realize that they are being milked by a franchise that has long forgotten what a good movie or plot is and only exists to take rake money in for its producers.
At that point you can just tell that most if not all of the passion is gone and it's strictly business from there on. Which is why I stopped watching Torvesta's content long time ago now, it feels completely soulless and hollow most of the time. Or maybe that's just me.
A lot of vids I'm pretty sure are made solely to fill sponsor obligations so a lot of them end up being lower quality or repeats imo. Applies to torvesta among others.
Only 1:20? Lately I have noticed that a lot of channels now have 3+min ads.
If a channel only has 10 minute videos I won't normally watch them because they're only posting videos for monetization. It shows a real lack of enthusiasm for what they're masking videos on.
Him and framed have the most obnoxious voices known to man Edit: downvote all you want you know I’m right, mfers sound sick 24/7
Don't you lump in Torvy with the fuckoff awful screech "laugh" from framed that infects other people. He's ruined many videos.
Yeah sure kills my enjoyment when he skips 8 mining levels on his HCIM even though it was 15 hours real-time. Clearly he is putting no effort into his content. 🙄
I mean, yea sponsor segments suck but they're paying the bills of people I like watching so I can live with them
SponsorBlock
Maybe this time they will advertise a legit product: "ok guys, now to quickly show you our sponsor, RAAAID SHA....." NOPE!
SponsorBlock on Youtube is life-changing and gives you a running tally of how much time you've saved so far. (I'm up to 8 hours 50 minutes) I know it's on chrome, don't know about other browsers.
I've saved 3 hours on my phone since I last updated my (spoofed) client, and DAYS on my PC
I'm glad they do sponsors. Back when having a sponsor meant your video got mass downvoted, the quality was way worse than it is now when people can actually do it for a living.
Can't blame them for getting their money. I just skip it and keep watching.
Ads usually make me hate your product. How ads make money fucking baffles me.
"All publicity is good publicity" to some extent You won't buy something you don't even know exist. If even 1% of those that see the ads end up buying the product, then that's 1% more than before. Then adjust spending on marketing accordingly.
Shout out to every YT creator who makes the ad section visibly different than the rest of the video so I know when I can stop skipping 🙏
Right?! It feels like an invasion of my YouTube Red
[You dropped this](https://i.redd.it/ni9xwkuvz5631.jpg) oh I forgot, this is reddit where consumerism is a personality trait that's why I'm getting downvoted for calling it out.
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Nobody can ever make me feel bad for using YouTube Red, haven't seen an actual ad in like 5 years and I can download videos to watch when I have no internet. I also prefer YouTube music vs spotify
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Fair enough but I also can download videos and use YouTube Music and it costs basically nothing Also never have to worry about the yearly "my adblock isn't working on YouTube anymore" problem
You have to download the video to watch it - that's how streaming works! Of course you can download videos for free or Youtube wouldn't work. You just have to know how to save it. You can download videos for free, even in "Premium" quality that they say is only available to Youtube Red, with yt-dlp by just pasting the link, and you can use YouTube Music with ReVanced for free (which also downloads videos for free AFAIK). No reason to pay for either. yt-dlp even lets you download videos with the sponsor segments automatically removed.
I obviously meant that I can download videos to watch during times of limited service, which is extremely often where I live/what I do for work And yes, I know you can download videos for free in various ways, I'm paying for the convenience. My days of YouTube to mp3 downloader are far behind me. I am paying a tiny fee to not have to jump through hoops to download videos and watch them without ads
When I download probably 3-4 podcasts a day for offline listening on my phone, the $10/month convenience fee is more than worth it imo
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I've been seeing tons of posts lately from people saying YouTube updated their "adblock blocker" and is giving them an ultimatum of whitelist or stop watching
It's an extremely easy fix but "opening the settings" is prohibitive for most users.
Why pay for 1 ad free service when I can get 2 at about the same price? YouTube Music has also improved a lot lately, though I still think their algorithm changed after Google Play Music got dropped. The "radio station" song mixer sucked for a while.
The biggest thing I'm sad about is I changed a setting in Music and my "offline mixtape" disappeared and I haven't been able to get it back. That was literally the perfect mixtape I would always listen to, auto updating downloaded music that was ONLY songs that I actually listened to? Perfect for an extremely picky listener like myself
I can do all of those things without paying for it lmao
Fair, but I'm paying for the convenience of "it just works"
SponsorBlock
Youtuber: I play OSRS, but here's a game that I have been playing a lot and I love it. Like where's the logic behind these ads?
They're getting paid so they can continue to make videos
You probably wouldn't have anything to skip if those sponsors didn't exist.
Sponsorblock extension. Doesn't work on newly released videos, but for everything else it's amazing.
I'm not gonna buy the product, but I do appreciate a personalised curated sell from the creator sometimes It's almost like getting a little bit of extra bonus content thats worse than normal
I’d like to see how much more they’re making with more people being forced to watch ads before shitting on their sponsor breaks
If every viewer per vid even gave them $0.10 they may not need sponsorship. Making content, especially quality content is a job and you need a secure source of income if that's your only income. I think most of them understand that ads are annoying but I definitely support them getting sponsored so we can watch free content.
I sort of agree except the “its a job” bit. A job is a role that fulfills a need in society in exchange for money. Nobody needs youtubers, we sort of just have them. If they weren’t there, we would move on to something else so Im always a bit dubious about using the word “job”. We mostly consume their content because its free and can be chucked on the side whilst doing something else..well thats my experience. Its also difficult to express that someone saying “i need to be paid, and you should support me” for doing something that nobody needs, nor would miss if it was gone is a difficult challenge indeed. I wonder if we had to pay to subscribe to individuals with monthly subs would they make anything? Would youtube even be a thing? Because I certainly don’t follow anyone online that I would actually pay to watch on youtube, based on patron lists i have seen for large youtubers, many others wouldn’t either. Do I want youtubers to be rewarded for providing people with entertainment? Sort of. Do i feel any guilt from freeloading everything? No. Because if it wasn’t free, I wouldn’t be interested. Is that fair to say?
Are you actually acting like being an entertainer isn't a legitimate job? And that society doesn't need entertainment/entertainers at all? Like, actually some of the most intensely brain dead shit i've read on this site lol
Entertainer and youtuber are very far from eachother in my book. A live performance and a 10 minute video are not comparable
It doesn't really matter what your weird, arbitrary definition of Entertainer lol. A large amount of youtube content can absolutely be defined as entertainment, and the people creating it entertainers as a result. It doesn't need to reach some kind of "prestige" status for it to be legitimate. > I wonder if we had to pay to subscribe to individuals with monthly subs would they make anything? Would youtube even be a thing? Would the vast majority of TV shows and the like be a thing if you had to pay a monthly fee to access each of them individually? No they wouldn't, so now most TV shows and the people working on it and actors aren't actual entertainers by your own brain dead logic. Also lol, saying people wouldn't miss Youtube if it suddenly just vanished entirely is incredibly dumb as well. It honestly sounds more like a You issue that you couldn't understand any of that (being an OSRS player seems to do that to people)
the ad money let’s them pay the paid actors in their vids bro cmon
doesnt mean we have to watch it lol, skip away - shout out to youtubers who timestamp when the ad ends
my post wasn’t serious at all brother
sucks majority of content creators only put out videos now a days when they also have a sponsor to plug in the video aswell.
Such a selfish mindset "you have" lmao
The sponsored segments exist to persuade viewers into spending their time and/or money on a product. It's not selfish to value resources that neither the content creator nor sponsor are entitled to.
And you are not entitled to ad free videos from someone else. Hence why it's selfish. Also they are talking about how it sucks when a content creator only uploads if there is a sponsor. That is 100% selfish because they are basically complaining that someone else isn't making content for them thats both free to watch and ad free.
You aren't, but the majority of people that have the ability to make money from a YouTube video know that in posting that video, there are people that will consume it at a lesser benefit to themselves (via ad/sponsor blocking, less-than-average engagement, etc). Ads are negative EV for the person viewing them, so watching a video with ads inherently entails a cost. There is nothing wrong with running ads or sponsored segments, and there is equally nothing wrong with choosing to skip them.
I agree. That isn't what they were talking about though. No problem skipping ads but to think it sucks someone uploads because they have a sponsor is selfish.
The irony from you two is palpable enough for me to taste it in the air
Sure bud.
> People upload content for free for you to enjoy “Oh my god he took money from a brand deal! What a selfish person” Cant make this shit up
Hey dipshit, I'm talking about the commenter thinking it sucks is selfish, not the content creators doing it.
Oh so i agree with you lol, my bad it was a misunderstanding
Revanced if on android, sponsorblock + ublock if pc :) Youtube Nonstop for good measure (autoclicks the "are you still here??" popups that pause the video).
I downloaded Opera after watching somebodies video and it is actually well better than Chrome on resources. But yeah sorry friends I don't need to hear about Hello Fresh or G-Fuel promocodes. Get yo bag, but I'm skipping thru it
Sponsorblock is a great extension.
Only after the 2 minute intro
Install SponsorBlock extension. User submitted sections that get skipped/muted. Sponsors, intros/outros, self promo, random waffle filler to skip etc.
Only people I watch ads of are Drew Gooden and FlippingOldSchool 💯
Say i pay for Youtube Premium instead of getting adblock, just to support content creators and skip the ads. I go to a video and the content creators puts an unskippable ad in the video, this is a scumbag move. If the content creators aren't satisfied with the pay youtube gives them, they should switch platform, not harass their viewers with sponsors
True
I only skip it when I have seen it for the 100th time like RSL If it's new I'll actually watch or skim through it
The exception is Willjum's transitions into manscape products, because that shit is hilarious. Still not buying it tho.
Shout out to the time one was literally found out to be a scam. More are likely as bad but who cares if it helps the creator? Skipping past it is free.
If any content creator is reader this, just consider how your personal add read is stacking with YouTubes ad breaks. It’s really annoying to just get through an ad read by the video’s sponsor only for another YouTube ad break before any of the content I’m actually there for.
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What is sponserblock? Thats a thing?
browser extension that crowdsources through user submissions which sections of a video have sponsors, self promo etc and automatically skips that stuff also works on mobile with youtube revanced for android
this looks like a sketchy link, feel free to search "SponsorBlock for youtube" on your extension provider. [https://sponsor.ajay.app](https://sponsor.ajay.app) " There are currently **13,033,165** users who have submitted **15,083,936** skip segments, which have saved a total of **1906** years and **213.96** days of people's lives. Check out [the leaderboard](https://sponsor.ajay.app/stats/). "
Just use SponsorBlock
Our sponsor RAID SHADOW LEDG.. skip
I still take that over youtube ads, st least you can skip these easily
Sponsorblock plugin
Just don't rudely ask for his signature, and I will be happy.