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Comment by arepublicadoceu | Hacker News Reader

Please teach me how I can watch Linus Tech Tips on YouTube without ads with YouTube premium and without installing an extension.

There are several levels of ads on YouTube and paying for YouTube premium only gets rid of one.

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Can't speak to this channel specifically, but SponsorBlock works incredibly well, even for medium to smaller-sized channels.

That's an extension.

Isn't Linus Tech Tips an ad, though? The only times I've looked at it all I've seen is sponsored content with breaks to talk about sponsors and maybe buy some merch. Oh, and exhortations to use their affiliate links. And that's using Premium, I expect that without it the sponsored content would be broken up by youtube's ads.

Maybe my expectations are biased by subscribing to Nebula? And for those who do, Medlife Crisis just posted a fun video on the placebo effect featuring great (fake) sponsor callouts.

Do you consider the whole video to be "an ad" when the sponsor is a shoe company and the video is about a graphics card? I don't.

They do make videos where the entire thing is sponsored by the company whose product is the subject of the video. But it's like one or two a month.

And 5-10 seconds to mention merch is annoying sometimes but doesn't really change the nature of the video.

Press the L button twice when Linus says "just like the segway to our sp.."

Really? I don’t think I’ve ever seen an ad on Premium.

Every large youtube channel has sponsorship on it nowadays, it's like 1-2 minute ad segments in every video. Paying for premium doesn't stop that.

No, but it's easy to fast forward through them.

Or just don't watch videos that are littered with sponsors ads and maybe creators will do it less.

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