[PittleyDunkin]

At some point they'll just embed into the video stream. TBH I had assumed they were already doing this.

EDIT: Still, point taken. I'll try to figure out how to install this on my home router—I don't ever watch youtube from my browser.

[luma]

They have, and for that we have SponsorBlock https://sponsor.ajay.app/

[rvnx]

And the irony is that if you pay for YouTube Premium, you still get these baked-in ads :/

[tzs]

What's ironic about it? YouTube premium removes ads that YouTube adds to videos. Those sponsor ads in the videos are put there by the content creator who made the video.

[rvnx]

Yes sorry, perhaps not ironic, disappointing or deceptive would be more appropriate.

YouTube could enforce the content creator to tag the sponsored segments.

[dimator]

There's a different extension to auto skip the (community defined) ad segments in videos. There will always be a way.