if they outright forced us to stop day one there’d be outrage, so they instead ease us in. first a popup, then a timed popup, slowly leading to their actual goal but without the risk of an initial outrage. i know this is an extreme comparison but we’re like lambs to a slaughter

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    Well you can just skip over the sponsors manually, I did it for ages before discovering SponsorBlock. Nowhere near as bad as unskippable ads.

    Plus there are the occasional Youtubers that will actually do entertaining sponsor reads, whereas YouTube ads are always unbearable. Haven’t seen one on my own devices in… Well, I think I was running adblockers before the creation of YouTube. Pour one out for “The Proxomitron”, ancient ancestor of today’s adblockers.

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      The only Youtuber I know who shills his sponsors in really funny, creative ways is Jay Foreman - and specifically in the Map Men videos he does with his pal Mark Cooper Jones. He puts actual time and effort to make the fucking plugs amusing to watch (and I suspect he also sells his own talents as a comedian at the same time).

      I watch his plugs. I’ll never buy anything from the motherfucking advertisers who pay him but I sure watch him.

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        CriticalRole’s Sam Riegel also does amazingly hilarious ad reads that have me bowled over laughing most of the time.

        There’s definitely ways to make ads more bearable without forcing them on users.

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          Aww God I can’t stand that stupid Piped bot… Here’s another one who shills his open source project I’m sick to the backteeth hearing about.

          Hey Piped bot: if I had wanted to replace my YouTube links with yours, I’d have done it myself. Enough with the autolinks already…