Good. Give me a 60 second black screen before every YouTube video. I'll take it as a feature and use it to reevaluate how I'm spending my time.
I’ve been using AdGuard on iOS, and it’s not the quickest experience. It takes about 10 seconds to get a YouTube video to start. But oddly enough, I actually appreciate this.
10 seconds of peace and quiet, vs. 10 seconds of someone shouting at me about a product I don’t need.
Based on this comment, I don't believe you have used SponsorBlock or know that it has capabilities beyond just what's in the name, simply blocking sponsors. It has much more. When I said "filler," I was speaking about the literal category that SponsorBlock has, content that serves no purpose than to pad the video: https://wiki.sponsor.ajay.app/w/Filler_Tangent/Jokes
If I wanted to support them I'd give them cash, not sit in front of an ad segment for something I will never purchase.
Simply put: if I make a video that's eight (8) minutes long, or longer, I can change where the mid-roll advertisement is placed. If it's less, I cannot. I also get less adverts the shorter the video is. If it's ten (10) minutes or longer, I get more and more adverts.
That's why when my wife and I watched a video about how a certain food stuff was made (I think it was a type of pasta), they made it 10m 30s long and used b-roll footage of pasta moving along a conveyor belt for 2-3 f-ing minutes.
I think that’s unfair. In most cases people are doing YouTube as a source of income and in order to do that they must:
- Create regular content
- Stick to content that YouTube encourages
- Diversify intelligently
If they make a mis-step on any of those they can lose that stream of income overnight.