Citation needed. When you hover over a video’s progress bar, there is displayed a little graph showing something resembling a probability density function for timestamps users most frequently skip to. Advertisers can use this information to determine how likely a user is to sit through a sponsorship for a given channel.
Not that that matters. Don’t feel like you need to watch ads. Advertising is bad in all its forms.
Edit: I have a YouTube channel. The metrics are exportable. This is not a debate — advertisers often ask for these metrics. They absolutely can see when big channels have high SponsorBlock rates.
The Scottish thing is a scam because they aren’t even legally allowed to sell souvenir plots of land. Like obviously nobody in their right mind thinks it makes you a Lord or Lady, but they don’t even sell you the land!!!
SponsorBlock is not cool. This is the main revenue source of creators.
Adblock on the other hand in a cancer in youtube and has to go.
Sponsors don’t see if you skipped their ad segment.
Citation needed. When you hover over a video’s progress bar, there is displayed a little graph showing something resembling a probability density function for timestamps users most frequently skip to. Advertisers can use this information to determine how likely a user is to sit through a sponsorship for a given channel.
Not that that matters. Don’t feel like you need to watch ads. Advertising is bad in all its forms.
Sure they do.
Edit: I have a YouTube channel. The metrics are exportable. This is not a debate — advertisers often ask for these metrics. They absolutely can see when big channels have high SponsorBlock rates.
How, exactly, do they see that?
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Skipping the sponsored segment doesn’t net the creator less money. They’re paid before the video gets uploaded, or at worst by view count iirc.
I’m never removing SponsorBlock until YouTube cracks down on scams being promoted by big yotubers.
So, never.
Are you watching vids of youtubers who promote scams?
So many yt’ers promoted honey, that weird Scottish land certificate thing and betterhelp. I would argue all of those are basically scams.
The Scottish thing is a scam because they aren’t even legally allowed to sell souvenir plots of land. Like obviously nobody in their right mind thinks it makes you a Lord or Lady, but they don’t even sell you the land!!!
Oh yeah true I saw a few of those from mainstream people…
Honey and that one thing that said “oh you can be a Lord if you buy some land in scotland”, among suspicious VPNs and other “problem solvers”.
If they pay to be spoken off, odds are it’s worth your money.
most content creators starts peddling some cringe beliefs at some point, no loss there.