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Also I'm gonna be drawing the new Loading Artist comic on twitch when this post is about 10 hours old. So if you happen to remember in 10 hours and have literally nothing better to do, why not come by and distract me

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[–] [email protected] 54 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Where is the non-skippable ads added by YouTube?

[–] [email protected] 27 points 9 months ago (1 children)

He's using Firefox and has uBlock Origin installed.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Then please add 5 second delays.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 9 months ago

The funny thing is, the ad that you skipped is much longer than 5 seconds, so it is still worth doing.

[–] [email protected] 49 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Sponsor Block.

Thank me later

[–] [email protected] 11 points 9 months ago (1 children)

And for mobile, YouTube Revanced (Android only tho)

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago (2 children)

NewPipe now also supports Sponsorblock!

[–] deweydecibel 9 points 9 months ago (2 children)

No it doesn't, and never will. The mainteners of NewPipe have made their position on this clear.

https://newpipe.net/blog/pinned/newpipe-and-online-advertising/

Because they've done what most people won't and actually thought about it for a second and appreciated those types of sponsorships are the least harmful, least invasive, and easily skip able ads on the internet that directly support individual creators and not corporate entities, and its actually pretty shitty to make a whole app that actively targets the content creator's direct income (while the developer themselves accepts donations to boot).

But they let a fork of NewPipe exist that supports Sponsorblock, with their blessing. That's what you're thinking of.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago

My mistake then, the forked project is indeed what I'm talking about.

[–] alper_celik 1 points 9 months ago

İ like to use sponsorblock on skip when pressed mode so i can decide to skip sponsor if i watched it before or if i am not intrested in product. I think this kindof usage wouldn't be harmfull to content creators.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago

And so does LibreTube

[–] [email protected] 30 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Holy shit, you're on Lemmy? I am just now finding out that you've been on here for months now. Big fan of your comic, Gregor! I've been subscribed to your RSS feed for years now and am always excited when I get a notification! I really vibe with your brand of humour. Just wanted to say thank you for all the chuckles, snickers and laughs over the years!

Also, third panel, bottom right.

[–] loadingartist 4 points 8 months ago

Hey thank you very much for sticking with me for so long! I'm also glad to hear the RSS feed is still being used

[–] [email protected] 26 points 9 months ago (1 children)

15min video, 2min intro, 1min ads, 10min backstory, 2min guide, 2min outro.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Amazing how they manage to make 15 minutes feel like 17.

[–] idunnololz 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

The great creators make 4 hours feel like 15 minutes.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I time the videos now. If it takes more than 30 seconds to get to the point I click off.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

Use sponsorblock. It will automatically detect any promotions, ads, recaps, intros, annoying reminders and you can set to auto-skip or display a skip button. It's changed my life and it comes packed for free in Revanced (android). You're missing out if you're not using it.

You may read my comment and dismiss what I've said thinking "it's just a random Lemmy user what could he know?"

Just try it, however good you think it might be I promise you it's better than your expectations.

If you watch a Mr Beast video it's hilarious because it skips half of the video but zero of the content, really makes you think

[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago

I use sponsor block but YouTubers who do this are still typically channels I don’t like watching. No disrespect to the job but I don’t like feeling like a product.

Much prefer YouTubers who do it as a hobby

[–] [email protected] 10 points 9 months ago (3 children)

I make the occasional cooking video. The longest is like seven minutes, the rest hovers around the three minute mark. I don't even know how other people drag videos out that long. Ingredients, preparation, a bad joke or two, done. Then again I'm doing it for fun and don't want to waste peoples time, they could be starving.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago (1 children)

If this is an ad it worked

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

Nope, sorry if it seemed like that.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

I personally have mixed feelings about "fluff" content in recipes. If it's a rundown of the origins and history of the dish, its evolution, and variations, I'm usually very interested in that as it can and sometimes does have a bearing on how I may want to customize the recipe, or if nothing else, educational content on the history of food is nice. Obviously I appreciate a to the point recipe too, just saying I personally don't mind a bit of context and history. If it's just telling a story about your personal connection to the food though, I think we can stand to skip that or at the very least move it to a dedicated bonus section after the recipe itself.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

Oh yes, absolutely! I love doing a bit of research when I'm doing a recipe. I've got a couple of cooking books from the 19th century which are a great source for inspiration and show how dishes evolved, as you say. I'll include that in the videos too with traditional recipes, but that usually doesn't take up much time.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Research and use Sponsorblock

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Sponsorblock + Adblock is a must nowadays. And occasionally participating by submitting segments to sponsorblock, if you can, is a nice way to help.

[–] TangledHyphae 3 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Personally I've contributed segments (highlights and sponsor mostly) recently and the stats are somewhat disturbing in the sheer quantity of life time savings:

You've saved people from 1,448 segments ( 16h 53.2 minutes of their lives )

[–] [email protected] 9 points 9 months ago (2 children)

remember the wadsworth constant?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago (3 children)

what's the wadsworth constant?

[–] [email protected] 18 points 9 months ago (2 children)

congratulations on being one of today's lucky ten thousand! (which is itself a memetic reference to "even if almost everybody knew about something, there's still probably always at least ten thousand people every day hearing about it for the first time")

The Wadsworth Constant is not really a constant, but just an observed colloquial phenomenon called out by a dude who used the social media handle 'wadsworth' forever ago: it just seemed at the time as though you could skip the first 30% of any given youtube video and not really miss terribly much critical info because that block of time was often filled up with greeting, intro, sponsors, etc and a rehashing of the initial query. if you just hit '3' on your keyboard to skip 30% of the way in, you'd "usually" get what you clicked on the video for (if it's even in the video at all and it's not just clickbait trash).

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (2 children)

Wait, are you telling me that I can just hit '3' on my keyboard to skip 30%?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago (1 children)

You can also use "," and "." to rewind or advance by a single frame at a time.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

Wow, that's really nice

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

yes, AND if you hold shift and hit < or > you can decrease or increase the speed of playback by a range of preset multipliers!

the available playback speed multipliers are 0.25, 0.50, 0.75, 1.0 (normal speed), 1.25, 1.5x, 1.75 and 2.0.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

Good stuff, thank you for this

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago

Some old reddit comment by some guy going by wadsworth stated that the firat 30% of the video is useless.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Holy shit, now I do. Wasn't it even added as an Easter Egg at one point?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago

It was … back when Google had humor.

[–] RIP_Cheems 7 points 9 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago
[–] Holyhandgrenade 4 points 9 months ago

Here's a hilarious sketch with a similar premise: https://youtu.be/keJLV-h-AR8?si=7xcCkvVcokr9EpHr

[–] LazaroFilm 4 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

U You Plus extrainstalled on iPhone with SideStore. No more ads, auto skip sponsor segments download videos, background play and more.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

The name fits

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

Dear God, I've seen this one before and I love it. I love the entire series.