Google raising price of YouTube Premium to $13.99 per month - eviltoast
The price of an individual YouTube Premium subscription is increasing $2 to $13.99 per month in the US. YouTube has yet to...
  • deweydecibel@lemmy.worldEnglish
    52·
    1 year ago

    Blocking YouTube ads I support.

    Sponsorblocker is just shitty. That money goes directly to the content creators, not Google. It hurts the wrong people.

    Besides, you can fast-forward those.

    • QHC@lemmy.worldEnglish
      14·
      1 year ago

      Does SponsorBlock automatically skipping vs me manually scrubbing actually make any difference to what the creator receives in compensation?

      • bamboo@lemm.eeEnglish
        3·
        1 year ago

        No, I doubt the analytics software can tell the difference. It just sees the user skip from timestamp X to Y

    • bamboo@lemm.eeEnglish
      4·
      1 year ago

      Besides what others have said, many YouTubers that include sponsor segments get paid a flat rate for doing so before/when the video is published. They don’t get recurring revenue based on sponsor segments, only from YouTube ads.