• sorrybookbroke@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          11·
          24 days ago

          It replaces the thumbnail with a more representative frame from the video (voted by users). The ‘arrow’ was in reference to a trend where people would put a big red arrow pointed at some shit as clickbait. This is meant to stop clickbait

        • Mac@mander.xyzEnglish
          2·
          24 days ago

          It changes titles and thumbnails to remove clickbait. Seeing the youtube homepage without it is genuinely jarring–everyone is clawing at your attention. “Pick me, pick me!”

          There are different options but i have it set so the thumbnail is a random frame from the video. I think titles are ‘normalized’ and sometimes community generated.

    • biggerbogboy@sh.itjust.works
      6·
      24 days ago

      I love sponsor block, it works pretty much flawlessly apart from when YouTube recommends me a video from literally 30 seconds ago, which is surprisingly often that I can now count it on 2 hands as of the last time I got a scarily new video on my feed,

    • Railcar8095@lemmy.world
      1·
      23 days ago

      That’s the bit I hate the most about YouTube premium. You still have ad! What’s the fucking point is I have to get adblock for sponsors.

      Drop every single add, including embedded and we can have a discussion.

      I’m not going to be paying anyway though

  • zout@fedia.io
    26·
    24 days ago

    I’m missing Betterhelp, that one really expensive safety razor, and Bambulab for makers.

  • VitoRobles@lemmy.todayEnglish
    20·
    24 days ago

    I’m proud to say that I block so many ads, this is the first time I’m seeing most of these names.

    • JayGray91🐉🍕@piefed.socialEnglish
      17·
      24 days ago

      These sponsors are more and more being baked in the video themselves and not part of the system youtube use. That’s why I use sponsorblock to automatically skip the portions of the sponsors.

  • harrys_balzac@lemmy.dbzer0.com
    8·
    24 days ago

    This was put together by someone who doesn’t watch any sports channels. Completely missing all the sports betting sponsors like Fanduel and Underdog.

  • PhobosAnomaly@feddit.uk
    6·
    24 days ago

    I’d love to see the YouTube analytics of a handful of really popular videos that have embedded sponsors. Even before the “jump ahead” feature, there must be a massive drop-off of people who just skip five or ten seconds ahead until the sponsor isn’t showing again.

        • CobblerScholar@lemmy.world
          2·
          23 days ago

          I mean sure they arent good by any measure but for 70$ and after 4 years of near daily use in a shop with grinders and paint they’ve done what I needed them to, no complaints just no real complement either

          • JamesBoeing737MAX@sopuli.xyzEnglish
            1·
            23 days ago

            Well, that’s better than my KZ ZSN PROs, where the connector got loose and I lost one headphone(edit: actually ear idiot) in 2 months. But they were great while they lasted. Now I just use the JBL-s I got as a gift which practically can’t die.

        • Holytimes@sh.itjust.works
          2·
          23 days ago

          Yeah but dank is also a bit of an audio snob. Hes rough on everything that your normal person would use. He’s not entirely wrong. But he is rough.

          • JamesBoeing737MAX@sopuli.xyzEnglish
            1·
            23 days ago

            Well the KZ-s I had were way better than any other cheap earphones I used before and later. He has every right to complain over other cheap and even more expensive products.

    • Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com
      21·
      24 days ago

      I can’t say that without it rhyming with “cum”

      I know it’s got the umlaut, but… yknow… cmon.

  • TommySoda@lemmy.world
    3·
    24 days ago

    I mean, their advertising obviously worked. We all recognize those names even though more than half barely even do sponsorships anymore or not at all. Instead of making commercials look like memes they just flooded the internet and let us make the memes for them.