I started a free trial and cancelled it immediately to have no ads while on holiday. Didn’t realize they are offering some illusion of achievements as a “reward” for your attention, doubling as a FOMO weapon for when you want to quit.

  • @amotio
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    221 month ago

    ☝️ + DeArrow to replace clickbait thumbnails.

      • Flax
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        01 month ago

        I disagree. The main reason to adblock is to stop data collection and such for targeted advertising. Sponsors aren’t targeted and are one of the ethical ways content creators make money. Basically none of the sponsorship goes to YouTube

        • @[email protected]
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          181 month ago

          Yeah, but I don’t want to hear each youtubers cover over the same ad prompt. Plus the youtuber got paid for the ad read already, so me skipping a sponsor read is perfectly fine, I wasn’t gonna click their link anyway.

        • @[email protected]
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          41 month ago

          Yeah maybe you are right but I’m not going to buy anything that I see being advertised so there is no point in me sitting through the ad reads

        • @Squizzy
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          11 month ago

          Meh, I can fast forward ads on my tv so this seems similar. Besides some people are excessive with their ads so they deserve out right bans of their sponsors.

    • Ace! _SL/S
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      Hard disagree, the arrows let me know what channels and videos to avoid

    • @Cossty
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      11 month ago

      I have been using dearrow for about a year, cant believe I survived yt without it before.