[danShumway]

Sponsorblock has been a Godsend for me; it's something you don't really think about but adds up. The sponsored segments are not even really the biggest advantage, it also skips intros and outros and interaction reminders, which are huge.

I am convinced that being really aggressive about blocking advertisements helps with my ADHD and helps me focus better. I don't have science to back that up, just my anecdotal self-reported experience -- but I see improvements every time I get a little bit more purposeful about blocking ads (and not just ads but intros, boot screens, social reminders, suggested articles, etc -- basically interruptions). And when I see ads now that I'm no longer desensitized to them, they stick out so much and they're so hard to ignore. Our brains are good at filtering things out, but I do wonder if there's a focus cost in addition to a time cost. My mood improves when my house is clean and organized; my mood also improves when my media consumption is organized and de-cluttered.

[ornornor]

> interaction reminders

I’ve been wondering about these… do people really need to be reminded to “subscribe like comment down below” in every single video?

Don’t people know the creator wants you to do it and only do it if they feel like anyway?

What’s the point of everyone saying it in every single video?

It’s just aggravating to me, but I wonder why they keep saying it?

[Already__Taken]

yeh they do. All the analytics show up right when it's mentioned people do it.

[nextlevelwizard]

When you see stats like this it is hard to not just go full doomer and think most people are sheep

[johnny22]

or they just forgot about it , like i usually do. I still never remember to "like" videos because i didn' grow up on social media.

[nextlevelwizard]

Long intros are the worst. You had a nice click bait title and thumbnail fucking get to the content instead of telling me how busy you have been and how you feel/sound sick or entire history of everything and everyone even remotely related to the topic if the video.

Just give me the meat and give it to me raw

[littlecranky67]

Look at the Clickbait Remover extension for youtube, it replaces the thumbnails with true thumbs crested from the video

[eproxus]

DeArrow is my favorite tool to remove clickbait thumbnails and titles: https://dearrow.ajay.app/

[BLKNSLVR]

It's like their primary goal is to dump their opinion-drama on their seemingly captive audience, and any actual 'content' is far secondary to first-order-thinking-limited outrage.

Fuck all of them, and fuck the average human's susceptibility to being brain-hacked like that.

(Yes, there's plenty of good content and presenters out there, but there's about 1000x more dressed-up trash that also seem to have an unexplainable gazillion-and-one appropriately named "followers").

[jbirer]

You can skip past all that just by skipping the gaping mouth soyjak thumbnails.

[geek_at]

I use sponsor block on youtube too (I have youtube premium but that does not remove these sponsor blocks automatically) and the only videos I'm kinda sad not to see the sponsor blocks are videos by "Internet Historian".

He does it funny enough not to be annoying. Worst example on the other hand is Linus Tech Tips in my opinion

[dmunozv04]

Most SponsorBlock clients offer a way to whitelist certain channels so they aren’t skipped (iSponsorBlockTV does it), so that’s a good option if you like their sponsor segments