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
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.
Downside: Because you're hiding the problem it doesn't tell the creator in any way that people don't like "arrow face" type thumbnails and clickbait titles.
It’s funny that DeArrow has lead to me watching more videos with super click bait titles. It’s almost as if actually using the content for the title instead of some vague notion or off content question is more likely to pick a video to watch.
I know there’s a reason channels do it but this is just my experience.
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,
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.
You would be surprised how many people still watch with the normal YouTube ads, so never mind sponsorsblock. I guess the big tech companies succeeded by dumbing everything down to bite-sized technologies. So many younger people can't even comprehend the notion of ad blockers. They are basically on the same level as boomers when it comes to tech literacy.
My wife once asked me why is it so that on our HTPC there are no ads on YouTube and even on Netflix. Now she's hyped to use YouTube on her phone, tablet and her PC after I installed Revanced on her portables and Firefox with UBO+Sponsorblock on her PC.
I also remember frustration of our teachers in uni when they were showing some videos off youtube as an example for the class.
It may be not so obvious to us, but in reality most of internet users have no such tools installed on their systems. They raw dogging the internet.
There are some creators who's content ads have the same effort as the rest of the content. As a heavy ad block user this is the only way for advertisers to reach me and im okay with it.
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.
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
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.
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.
It was weird seeing a product I develop custom modules for being advertised by them lol. Also, ERPs have such a high entry cost to get them working properly for your business, I don't see who'd adopt one based on a YouTube sponsorship.
Yeah, I used to work on what amounted to an extension of Odoo with loads of customisation. Odoo itself was absolute hell after having worked on sane backends with sane ORMs.
Honestly he's one of the only creators where I don't just skip the sponsorship segments, because they are actually humorous and he frequently models the underwear for us.
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.
The Raid sponsorship was really common at some point and there were quite a few memes about it so I think while it probably has become less common it has a place in this meme.
Wonder why the mattress folks have ads on a ton of the podcasts I listen to but it doesn't show up on yt much. You'd think a mattress ad would want a visual medium to display some features.
I'm sorry y'all... I'm the one who convinced and helped out the owner of raycons to advertise on YouTube and podcasts before they launched there business, and I did so for free 😭
They're just rebranded Ali express Chinese stuff with better packaging btw. At least back then they were, I don't know about now
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gergolippai@lemmy.world · 86 pts · 203d
where's Ground News (yes i listen to boomer news commentary on youtube)
hzl@piefed.blahaj.zone · 22 pts · 203d
Also Rocket Money.
Spend money to save money without having to look at your own bank statements! Makes perfect sense!
runner_g@piefed.blahaj.zone · 0 pts · 202d
legal eagle also has ground news as a supervisor pretty often.
Someonelol@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 82 pts · 203d
Sponsor Block is one of the essential YouTube plugins. Thanks to that I don't know half of these companies.
Mac@mander.xyz · 21 pts · 203d
And Dearrow by the same creator.
Paddzr@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 203d
What's dearrow? Downsides?
sorrybookbroke@sh.itjust.works · 13 pts · 202d
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
Paddzr@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 202d
Thanks, downloaded and bought it. Happy to pay for good software.
Mac@mander.xyz · 2 pts · 202d
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.
Anarki_@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 2 pts · 202d
Downside: Because you're hiding the problem it doesn't tell the creator in any way that people don't like "arrow face" type thumbnails and clickbait titles.
I also use it and it's great, but... Yeah.
Anarki_@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 1 pts · 202d
joelfromaus@aussie.zone · 3 pts · 202d
It’s funny that DeArrow has lead to me watching more videos with super click bait titles. It’s almost as if actually using the content for the title instead of some vague notion or off content question is more likely to pick a video to watch.
I know there’s a reason channels do it but this is just my experience.
biggerbogboy@sh.itjust.works · 6 pts · 202d
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,
atopi@piefed.blahaj.zone · 2 pts · 202d
another option is to exclusively watch small youtube channels
Alaknar@sopuli.xyz · 2 pts · 202d
God forbid someone gets popular and starts making money off of their passion!
Holytimes@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 202d
This is Lemmy. You were required to hate on anything that makes money or anyone attempting to monetize anything.
Everything must be free.
as much as I love self-hosting it does get f****** over the top with how up their own ass. A lot of people around here are.
Alaknar@sopuli.xyz · 3 pts · 202d
This, plus the "anti-imperialism" which goes so far anti western imperialism that it goes round to being pro russian imperialism.
It's like a clown show here sometimes.
Railcar8095@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 202d
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
qevlarr@lemmy.world · 47 pts · 203d
Missing Nebula
zaphod@sopuli.xyz · 49 pts · 203d
Nebula is the youtubers advertising for their own platform. It's like "like and subscribe" or "subscribe to my patreon".
Gladaed@feddit.org · 11 pts · 203d
They are right anyway.
Ilovethebomb@sh.itjust.works · 34 pts · 203d
You missed Factor.
Peppycito@sh.itjust.works · 9 pts · 203d
And AG1 and skillshare
helpImTrappedOnline@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 203d
Skillshare is there, next to Hello Fresh.
Peppycito@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 202d
Oops. So used to skipping them I guess.
zout@fedia.io · 32 pts · 203d
I'm missing Betterhelp, that one really expensive safety razor, and Bambulab for makers.
Zwiebel@feddit.org · 13 pts · 203d
Hensson. It is a very good razor, just double the price of others
zout@fedia.io · 5 pts · 203d
That's the one!
Flatfire@lemmy.ca · 11 pts · 203d
PCBWay, the Raid Shadowlegends of electrical engineering projects
mirisgaiss@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 202d
I was gonna say, for the stuff I watch pcbway is every fucking video
FatVegan@leminal.space · 10 pts · 203d
Better help is so shitty that it makes me turn off a video when my sponsor block isn't working. Bambulab at least makes something "good".
Drekaridill@lemmy.wtf · 24 pts · 202d
I've actually never seen an elgato sponsorship
real_squids@sopuli.xyz · 9 pts · 202d
It's when somebody's elgato stops working so their logo remains the only thing on the screen for a minute or so
Holytimes@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 202d
It's more they break frequently and thus the name and logo crops up a lot cause of it
VitoRobles@lemmy.today · 24 pts · 203d
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.social · 21 pts · 203d
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.
RickyRigatoni@retrolemmy.com · 18 pts · 203d
Did you really need to write this like you were sponsored
JayGray91@piefed.social · 5 pts · 202d
I swear it's unintentional
Sivecano@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 12 pts · 202d
Sponsorblock go brrr
harrys_balzac@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 10 pts · 202d
This was put together by someone who doesn't watch any sports channels. Completely missing all the sports betting sponsors like Fanduel and Underdog.
cRazi_man@europe.pub · 8 pts · 203d
You guys are seeing sponsors? Don't people use sponsorblock? I've never heard of (or seen) half these things.
Decq@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 203d
You would be surprised how many people still watch with the normal YouTube ads, so never mind sponsorsblock. I guess the big tech companies succeeded by dumbing everything down to bite-sized technologies. So many younger people can't even comprehend the notion of ad blockers. They are basically on the same level as boomers when it comes to tech literacy.
imetators@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 202d
You beat me to it.
My wife once asked me why is it so that on our HTPC there are no ads on YouTube and even on Netflix. Now she's hyped to use YouTube on her phone, tablet and her PC after I installed Revanced on her portables and Firefox with UBO+Sponsorblock on her PC.
I also remember frustration of our teachers in uni when they were showing some videos off youtube as an example for the class.
It may be not so obvious to us, but in reality most of internet users have no such tools installed on their systems. They raw dogging the internet.
0tan0d@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 203d
There are some creators who's content ads have the same effort as the rest of the content. As a heavy ad block user this is the only way for advertisers to reach me and im okay with it.
protogen420@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 3 pts · 203d
sometimes there isnt labeled sponsor segments, I just usually skip increments of 30 seconds since most sponsor are either 30, 60 or 90 seconds
PattyMcB@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 203d
Morgan & Morgan have been showing up recently
zr0@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 6 pts · 203d
And I have never ever used one of those services.
CobblerScholar@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 202d
Got a set of Raycon headphones, they're fine but nothing special
JamesBoeing737MAX@sopuli.xyz · 3 pts · 202d
Dankpods heavily criticized them.
Holytimes@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 202d
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.xyz · 1 pts · 201d
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.
CobblerScholar@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 202d
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.xyz · 1 pts · 201d
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.
PhobosAnomaly@feddit.uk · 6 pts · 203d
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.
Delphon@discuss.tchncs.de · 6 pts · 203d
Odoo is missing
FishFace@piefed.social · 2 pts · 203d
What, the open source business software?
boonhet@sopuli.xyz · 3 pts · 202d
Yes, LTT for one was advertising it.
It was weird seeing a product I develop custom modules for being advertised by them lol. Also, ERPs have such a high entry cost to get them working properly for your business, I don't see who'd adopt one based on a YouTube sponsorship.
FishFace@piefed.social · 1 pts · 202d
Yeah, I used to work on what amounted to an extension of Odoo with loads of customisation. Odoo itself was absolute hell after having worked on sane backends with sane ORMs.
Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 202d
Never heard of that one
Golden@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 6 pts · 203d
Idk if this is outdated or I just watch different content than OP, but I've been seeing mostly Helix & MeUndies the last year
purplemonkeymad@programming.dev · 4 pts · 203d
Only seen meundies on two channels so far. Not come across helix yet. Yt is large enough for you to be able to just completely miss a sponsor.
protogen420@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 3 pts · 203d
I have come accross meundies when watching Alec Steele, amazing channel, would recommend, big enough to have sponskr segments labelled consistent too
socsa@piefed.social · 1 pts · 202d
Honestly he's one of the only creators where I don't just skip the sponsorship segments, because they are actually humorous and he frequently models the underwear for us.
TheRealKuni@piefed.social · 3 pts · 202d
MeUndies are unironically excellent.
Micromodal isn’t the sturdiest fiber so they do wear out eventually, but holy shit are they comfy.
They’re overpriced, sure, but kind of worth it IMO.
probablymissing@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 202d
helix? like, the text editor???
Golden@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 1 pts · 202d
It's a mattress/topper brand
Lumidaub@feddit.org · 4 pts · 203d
This seems less like a starter pack and more like the whole collection.
fleebleneeble@reddthat.com · 4 pts · 203d
Füm?
Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 202d
I can’t say that without it rhyming with “cum”
I know it’s got the umlaut, but… yknow… cmon.
Echolynx@lemmy.zip · 4 pts · 202d
You watch mostly tech and video game channels, I suppose?
affenlehrer@feddit.org · 3 pts · 203d
EG1AG1 is missingrobocall@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 203d
AG1?
TommySoda@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 203d
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.
Gladaed@feddit.org · 3 pts · 203d
The single blade razor company, Henson, is missing.
Also cut elgato, g2a and raid.
Ziglin@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 203d
The Raid sponsorship was really common at some point and there were quite a few memes about it so I think while it probably has become less common it has a place in this meme.
Gladaed@feddit.org · 1 pts · 202d
Yeah, I know. But it stopped a while ago.
RisingSwell@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 202d
They still do yt advertising now, saw one in the last week.
Battle_Masker@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 2 pts · 202d
Is Magic Spoon still sponsoring web creators? Or did they stop when their cereal came to grocery stores?
homes@piefed.world · 2 pts · 203d
This meme brought to you by Blue Apron
IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 202d
revanced user, what are yall talking about?
FreddiesLantern@leminal.space · 1 pts · 202d
Oh right, even more companies promoting their competition.
samus12345@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 202d
tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 202d
Wonder why the mattress folks have ads on a ton of the podcasts I listen to but it doesn't show up on yt much. You'd think a mattress ad would want a visual medium to display some features.
pewgar_seemsimandroid@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 1 pts · 202d
surprisef you know about the displate sponsorships, mabye i think they're rare because i use sponsorblock.
Lumisal@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 202d
I'm sorry y'all... I'm the one who convinced and helped out the owner of raycons to advertise on YouTube and podcasts before they launched there business, and I did so for free 😭
They're just rebranded Ali express Chinese stuff with better packaging btw. At least back then they were, I don't know about now