That's 1800 hours of the-device-that-watched-it's electricity saved (minus whatever amount humans might have skipped manually)

Awesome ! 🙌

Yes, even in meatspace, they defile nature with their billboard and now fucking TVs on the side of highway, destroy them, burn them, advertising is pollution of the soul and a defiling of our shared reality, its perpetrators are criminals.

You could use Sponsorblock and simply not skip sponsors. Use it to skip interaction reminders or intros, for example.

It's a very useful extension.

I have a severe allergy to all paid speech and derivatives.

My only regret is that I can't disinfect it from from my internet at the router level without my very old phone having to do the heavy lifting

This thread is being a little two wholesome, who is cutting onions in here ?

It's a community of people who suggest sections of video to skip for they are paid speech and other irritant such as interaction reminders, and other indesirable things, it also includes labelling, such as tangents which some people might want to also skip.

I think it is a natural part of us wanting to reclaim our attention back.

https://sponsor.ajay.app/
https://github.com/ajayyy/SponsorBlock
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/addon/sponsorblock/
https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/sponsorblock-for-youtube/

It's an addon and we the viewers crowdsource the labelling for the people who come after us

I don't know who ajay is but thank you ajay

Sometime I land on a 2 minute old video, I watch it and there's an ad segment

I report it and hit refresh, my marked segment appears but also other segments !

and then I realize, I'm not alone !

That's funny we should have more tags, colours and maybe even the ability to insert comments in the timeline, even if you have to dig a little to see them in the interface. Like a comment section outside youtube, our little clubhouse

You mean like in the early days when people made videos for free and got no monetary reward from it?

Yes. Yes, like that.

I want google youtube facebook amazon apple and the ENTIRE ADVERTISING MARKETING PUBLIC RELATION ETC. INDUSTRY to die an ignominious death.
I want NO ART WHATSOEVER nor journalism, to be advertising funded.
I want to abolish all intellectual property, all created artworks of any kinds to be the infinite freely reproducible goods that they are
I want all art, journalism to be paid in advance and reliably so the people who do it and are good at it have a respectable life and not "just the rockstar" decided by distribution executives
I want all blitzscaled and hyperscaled companies to crash and burn, they are price predator anti-competitive monopolist
I want all giant institution to be abundantly and unambiguously good for us and not just good for shareholder profit
I want all the scum trying to hack my brain with endless manipulation tactics to have their mouth filled with ash and regret
I want to stop all the peeping eyes spying on me in the showers, listening to the vibration of mems devices in my phone and infering my emotional state when I delete a selfie or menstruate
I SHIT TO STOP BEING FUCKED

Is that REALLY too much to ask ?

We know the problem and IT'S "YOU"(*) !

(*) You, the mental pattern that weeps for the ads, ads aren't free they cost us our free will, that's literally what they buy, you probably like saying "well free healthcare isn't free" yes but you know what at least with free healthcare everyone benefits from everyone else being healthy. With ads we sell our souls for more doomscroll and the only ones that benefit is private equity while the creator still gets left behind in the rat race of the tournament economy.

No, we want everyone to not need a monetary reward anymore and just get enough to live regardless of what they choose to do with their time.

They still get paid and I wouldn't have been watching or listening to the ad read either way. This addon just makes it slightly easier than tapping the right side of the screen 5-6 times. If it takes me say 5 seconds to save the next guy the trouble I'll do it.

I'd rather pay for a service directly and have that fund the creators and those maintaining the service, without it all being used for profit of the owners (like YouTube premium). That, or have it publicly funded and enough safety nets that people don't need to worry and just make videos for fun. That's just for now, in the future we could go even further beyond that.