I understand from an economical perspective why people do it, but I can't shake the feeling that the content is just an excuse and the ad is the meat of the content.
Apparently "SponsorBlock" actually solves that. Haven't of it before, but the description is promising.
>>> SponsorBlock lets you skip over sponsors, intros, outros, subscription reminders, and other annoying parts of YouTube videos. SponsorBlock is a crowdsourced browser extension that lets anyone submit the start and end times of sponsored segments and other segments of YouTube videos. Once one person submits this information, everyone else with this extension will skip right over the sponsored segment.
https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/sponsorblock-for-yo...
Yes, that's why I called it a replacement for YT Premium and not a replacement for SponsorBlock.
Patreon means all they have to do is exactly what they want to do, put that on the internet, and make a livable wage. This isn't exactly an isolated case either. Every youtube creator between 100k - 1 million "subscribers" is better served by just doing what they want and being supported by patrons. It is the single most direct and viable form of talent funding.
Most of these creators actively dislike youtube, which is why they push their literal replacement; nebula.
And if you have android:
These videos take away from the channel's integrity for me but at least they're clearly marked as ads
I'm looking to skip the embedded ad-read sponsorships, credits, the "thanks for subscribing," and "thanks for our patreons" stuff and sponsorblock does that in spades.
Cheap entertainment is getting boring.