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YouTube is increasing Premium prices in multiple countries, right after an ad-blocker crackdown | You either pay rightfully for the video content you consume, or you live with the ads. (www.androidauthority.com)
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YouTube is increasing Premium prices in multiple countries, right after an ad-blocker crackdown | You either pay rightfully for the video content you consume, or you live with the ads.::Google is increasing the prices of YouTube Premium and YouTube Music Premium subscriptions in some regions, right after blocking ad-blockers.

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[–] 4 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Counter-ask: how does watching the sponsored content help them?

They've been paid initially, people who use sponsor block are way less likely to sign up for the service.

Watching it does literally nothing for them if you don't sign up... The sponsor won't even see metrics of who skipped the sponsored portion

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  • [–] 0 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    It just seems like overkill to me tbh. The content creators I watch need sponsors to get by, so I'll take a peek at what they're offering in good faith. If I don't like it I just skip to the end of the bit, or leave the video since a few put them at the end. You're not messing with corporate profits or anything.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago

    Ok, but you can set it up to not auto skip. You could just get a button to skip to the end of the promotion - I think that's the default even

    But I've literally only looked into a product sponsored by a creator once, and once I saw the price tag I clicked off. And that was after I installed sponsor block

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