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Those are sponser segments and I have no problem with them. These videos can be expensive to produce and these people need to support themselves still. If you take away or reduce their ad revenue, how do we expect them to survive?

There is an extension called SponserBlock that will automatically skip them and other marketing / time wastes. Otherwise I just skip ahead (the highest peak in the watch graph playbar at will usually be the end of the segment)




>If you take away or reduce their ad revenue, how do we expect them to survive?

I want YT to pay them out of what I pay for YT Premium.


They do, and its a pittance.


Where are you getting this information? Are you a YT creator?


No, just public sources and seeing others review their income. Which part? YouTube shares details in [0] for how Premium earnings works, I believe the current split is 55% to creators. This is like Spotify where your payment is proportional to your eligible watch time over all watch time from all premium-eligible videos across all premium accounts. YT Premium Lite was announced here [1].

[0] https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/6306276

[1] https://blog.youtube/news-and-events/introducing-premium-lit...




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