Honestly, I’d rather go back to having adds pre video than youtubers who sneak in obvious ads.

I’m talking about these videos where they give you advice on a specific topic like 12 life lessons and the 7th life lesson is better sleep quality and suddenly they say this video is sponsored by XY pharmacy go get your Melatonin now and move on to the 8th life lesson.

Or how to make friends videos and suddenly they transition into a Magnesium add because better sleep = more friends.

It doesn’t make the other arguements less valueable but I lose interest in those youtubers quite fast for that reason. I’m always like: “Oh no I know where this is heading too…” when I am listening to a video in my car and yep, I am most of the time correct - it’s an ad.

I see they need money but if you have millions of subscribers I can’t understand. Throw an ad before the video starts or something but make a video about the topic.

  • Zagorath@aussie.zoneEnglish
    4·
    6 months ago

    I love this extension, but for OP’s problem it could actually be a negative. If their regular video content is being influenced by who sponsors them, it’s worth knowing who the sponsor is to help you make that judgment. If you don’t find out that the video that talks about sleep quality was sponsored by a pharmacy selling you melatonin, you might not realise that potentially the only reason they talked about sleep quality to begin with was because it’s useful to their sponsor’s interests.

    Now, this particular example is relatively innocuous, because we know that actual medical research does point to the importance of good quality sleep. But it’s not hard to think of examples that are a little more insidious.

    • droning_in_my_ears@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      6 months ago

      Good point

      But the YouTuber who put the sponsor segment there assumed everyone would see it. So I think they’d have to be pretty shameless to have their video content be so obviously influenced by the ad. Ok sometimes it’s more insidious but come on. People will catch it and call them a sellout.

      Personally I don’t care. I’m here to watch the video and ads don’t work on me 99.9999% of the time. Because I associate them with bad products and services, if your product or service is good it’ll sell itself. I trust word of mouth way more.