What really helped me stay focused during ad breaks was picking up a pair of Raycon earbuds. They provided me with premium noise cancellation at a fraction of the price!
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That's why I drink AG1, to give me the essential nutrients I need to get through ad breaks!
look at this guy not using sponsorblock
Kind of a skill issue ngl
A skill issue not to be using this? Yes absolutely, thankfully an easily rectified one.
Sponsor block just works.
Use sponsorblock and just send them a lil money instead if you like them enough
An individual solution is fine, but I'm more bothered by the consequences this is having on getting and sharing information you can trust to be genuine.
If someone is making a video on the tendency for the rate of profit to fall and decide to sneak in an ad about earbuds or VPNs, that doesn’t seem to really affect the integrity.
If you’re doing a video on privacy or the best earbuds and your sponsors are one of those, obviously it’s a conflict of interest. Likewise if you make a video on socialism and your sponsor is The Bill Gates Foundation lol
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Sponsorblock is an amazing addon. A must have in conjunction with ublock Origin.
Seeing sponsorships in videos is as weird to me as seeing any ads on the internet now. Youtube is borderline unwatchable without it.
I get that you gotta pay the bills but please just turn to the camera and say "I am going to read some ad copy now"
Some More News is pretty good at that. They have a special border and are very explicit about it too. Poor Cody chugging AG-1 for us to keep the lights on 
Agreed, I like that the suffering is made clear.
Hasan's pitch for amazon every hour is obnoxious for this. How is it that non-lefty streamers have more qualms about giving amazon free PR than he does? Someone like AvoidingThePuddle pushes back against every stupid gimmick that is foist upon him.
It depends how it's done in my opinion. I used to watch Veritasium and then he did a video on self-driving cars. Which ended up just being a sponsorship for a specific company.
You probably know this, but in case not and for others interested, Tom Nicholas did a whole video about that specific incident and youtubers doing corporate propaganda in general. It was pretty good. I also unsubscribed from Veritasium around then, mostly because of their doubling down after the TN video rather than acknowledging it. A shame because Veritasium was pretty decent as far as that kind of channel goes.
I'm with OP though. The embedded "this video is sponsored by" ads, no matter how ironically or cleverly a youtuber inserts it in, still seriously rankles me. All the more when leftist "content creators" do it. It just feels all the more hypocritical.
Especially funny since Tom Nichols has shilled snake oil VPNs and other crap. He is kinda what this thread is about.
Yeah, the same with all The Deprogram boys too. 
JT is quite bad with it, and even Hakim goes into long, tedious ads for VPNs. It's nearly inescapable and it sucks.
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That's a pretty big ooof. I think when it gets to that point, you abandon ship.
IDK if Veritasium was always ass or if its a more recently thing, but it feels like a decent chunk of their recent stuff is either 
reddit garbage or thinly veiled ads. That video about the speed of light in a copper wire lives in my head
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We must implement Youtube Socialism with Boy Boy Characteristics
Hakim at least asked his audience (who said yes) and openly makes the minimum effort at segue
I appreciate the ytbers who mark the chapters either side of the ad so you can skip
It's very dystopian. Even moreso when it's a product because of our dystopia like VPNs or data purging services.
Capitalist Realism fucking me up like
Critical support to Mr. Sausage for putting the ad reads during the "will it blow?" segments so I can skip the 2 worst parts of the video in one go.
One, two, three Mark Ruffalos!
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Eh, motherfuckers gotta pay rent and I can usually just scroll past them 
Near 100% of YouTube ads are straight up scams, being overpriced as fuck, data harvesting, or straight up harmful if it's Better Help. There's paying rent and then there's willingly participating in a scam and selling it to one's audience
Most of the ones I follow make the ads so stupid I doubt anyone ever actually buys them. They do everything short of BoyBoy just saying "never buy this shit".
If the advertisers were not supportive of the ads they would not keep advertising.
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It's primed me to the preambles and lead ins, and immediately turns me off whatever I was watching
Yeah, I feel like I'm being deceived. Just tell me you're going to give me an ad and ask me to watch it so it'll help your views/algorithm.
Don't make up a story or pivot from the original topic.
Well anyways so there's this thing called Square Space...
I'm sorry. I had to do it.
It's really funny tho.
Just tell me you're going to give me an ad and ask me to watch it so it'll help your views/algorithm.
The reason they don't do this is because it doesn't work. Nobody wants to watch an ad
I agree they could just no-effort it or something, I prefer the ones that are blunt, or a little surreal in a way that clearly tips off they don't want you to buy the schlock, but best is just not seeing them. Ultimately they've gotta make a living and that's the way youtubers do it, and having good metrics helps spread their message in addition to helping with sponsors, so idk. Just as much as they as a creator could simply not do embedded sponsorships or do them in a way you like, you could also just not watch content that does that, or use sponsorblock or smth. Either way its an individual solution
Honestly these days I tend to skip the first 2 minutes of any YouTube video, especially if there's an obvious mark where users have been skipping to
These days it feels like the first minute is just a very brief summary of the video thesis and then an extended ad read bit, with the actual video starting 2 to 3 minutes in
I might sound like an asshole here, but I feel like of you can't have a media career without hawking untested dietary supplements and scams maybe you shouldn't have a media career. Also a lot of this is giving very heavy vibes of the newscaster talking about the smooth taste of the cigarette brand sponsoring the news
Raid shadow legends is BDS too lol
you can use sponsorblock to just not hear the sponsors.
I just use my fingers to press skip until they stop advertising and get back on topic
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When you engage with the system of capitalism, it influences you and aligns you toward its goals.
Not a lefty obviously, but that recent Mr. Beast interview shows a man who has been subsumed by the algorithm and turned into an avatar of Mammon. 
Everyone is subject to this same force, to one degree or another.
He's not a political YouTuber or anything, but I keep having more and more respect for LGR for not doing ad reads.
Also, he's not even a YouTuber, but did you know Robert Fedvans does ad reads for Betterhelp, the extremely shitty-sounding ”mental health” company?
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