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by falcolas 1859 days ago
That's on the creator, and no ad blocker will stop sponsored content.
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Dah00n 1859 days ago
SponsorBlock will. It does require someone to flag the ads first though but so does most ads on adblocker lists.
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heavyset_go 1859 days ago
Google could certainly detect when sponsored ads start in YouTube content and skip them to honor their "no ads" agreement with YouTube Premium customers.

That, or they could pay content creators fairly so that they don't have to shill for NordVPN in every video they release.

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falcolas 1859 days ago
I'm not confident any automated system could properly detect a sponsored segment. Some creators are quite sly with how they're worked in.

> pay content creators fairly so that they don't have to shill for NordVPN in every video they release.

I'm with you on that.

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heavyset_go 1859 days ago
> I'm not confident any automated system could properly detect a sponsored segment. Some creators are quite sly with how they're worked in.

SponsorBlock does it, and Google could make it part of their policy for content creators to mark sponsored ad segments in their videos so that they can be skipped.

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