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Linus Tech Tips uploaded a video showing how to block ads on Youtube. Which was removed by Youtube for community guidelines violations.
(sh.itjust.works)
https://files.catbox.moe/a6111d.png / https://nitter.poast.org/LinusTech/status/1825956050685800834
If you go the video, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GsjHMzGl-VY. You will see it's gone. So Youtube being Youtube.
Here's a Odysee mirror of the video, https://odysee.com/@jopec:7/linus-tech-tips-degoogle-your-life-part-2-adfree-youtube:0.
Ironically, watching this video on Osysee results in me consuming more ads that help LTT than usual, because I don't have SponsorBlock set up for that.
SponsorBlock does not change anything about the money they get from sponsorships. So no, that does not help them more than otherwise.
I'm pretty sure it does, they do see how many people play the segment.
They talked about it in the WAN show and they do not share that data as of a few months ago.
They way I uderstand your comment, LTT is big enought so as to negotiate contracts with sponsor without being forced to share the metric related to the performance of the sponsored segment.
I doubt that's true for many creators.