Instead of blocking them, this extension speeds them up to x16 and also mutes the ad. Experiencing a 30 second ad in 2 seconds is pretty funny. And it works on Edge and Chrome.

    • @jol@discuss.tchncs.de
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      101 year ago

      I don’t know man. This is actually pretty genius. Because this way creators still get paid. I wouldn’t mind using such extension on Firefox. Problem is I still want to block all trackers and other nonsense…

      • @Tattorack@lemmy.world
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        31 year ago

        Doesn’t the creator only get paid if someone actually clicks on the ad? Pretty sure the creator gets nothing if no clicks are accumulated.

        • @viralJ@lemmy.world
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          31 year ago

          Haha two exact opposite answers. From what I remember, the advertiser can chose the payment model. They can either say “I will pay YouTube a tiny amount for every time the ad is shown” or “I will pay YouTube a less tiny amount for every time the ad is clicked”. But it was a few years ago that I read about it so it might have changed since then.

          • @Tattorack@lemmy.world
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            31 year ago

            I tried actually searching for info about it, but it seems that YouTube and Google want to be as vague as possible about how it actually works.

            Yes, let’s be a YouTube creator and base my income on something extremely vague and shaky. Sounds like a good life decision.

            • Dizzy Devil Ducky
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              11 year ago

              Sounds about as stable as asking the all mighty magic 8 ball how much you should be paid. Maybe yt should just do that for the creators and let them in on it. /s

      • @CheeseNoodle@lemmy.world
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        21 year ago

        Agreed, I’m testing it on opera and might have it installed for the soel purpose of watching youtube (with firefox for everything else)

    • @ours@lemmy.world
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      101 year ago

      The “Look at what they need to do to have a fraction of our power” Invincible meme comes to mind.

      Pathetic to be satisfied with sped-up annoyances when they can be easily skipped altogether with a browser not controlled by the ad company.

    • Echo Dot
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      21 year ago

      Firefox and just pay for a reasonable 30 second YouTube ad which is just a blank screen with the text “Use Firefox Already”