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by treesciencebot 585 days ago
I think the main problem is with 2) since 1 is entirely up to the content creator's discretion.
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I will not be surprised if YouTube figures out a way to make content creators pay a portion of their sponsored content.
They’re already going after sponsor reads.

On iOS with YouTube premium, I get a button prompt asking if I want to skip a commonly skipped sections.

9/10 it’s the sponsor read. The remaining 1/10 is patreon

I haven’t seen much about it so I’m not sure if im in an A/B test

Didn't Twitch try to do this?
The backlash from Twitch's attempt may well be why Youtube isn't doing it