feature request | add sponsor block

[MLWALK3R]

https://sponsor.ajay.app/

[stemy2]

It may cause some ethical issues, since sponsoring is the unique source of income for many creators.

[connervieira]

It may cause some ethical issues, since sponsoring is the unique source of income for many creators.

Thats potentially true, but I'd argue it still makes sense to have it. There are quite a few creators who have sponsor spots that are more than a minute out of a 5 minute video. I don't want to sit through something like that, but I'd gladly whitelist channels like LTT who are concise and honest about sponsored segments.

Also, this doesn't significantly differ from blocking advertisements, as sponsored segments aren't funded by views, they're funded by who actually uses the product sponsored.

[wangxu94]

Content creators will still get paid by the sponsors. This is no different from manually skipping the sponsored segments.

[alex9099]

Also FreeTube (as well as newpipe) AFAIK don't count views, so ethics are broken right in there. Besides that... It can be opt-in, that way it wont break any "ethics"

[alien2003]

It may cause some ethical issues, since sponsoring is the unique source of income for many creators.

Creators of YouTube will gain their money anyway

[EmeraldSnorlax]

It may cause some ethical issues, since sponsoring is the unique source of income for many creators.

having my data sold and harvested is already an ethical issue.

besides, i dont think freetube submits view counts, or even loads ads to begin with, so they arent missing out on much compared to current freetube -- to follow this line of thought, wouldnt using freetube to begin with be an ethical issue?

if its really that much of a concern then i guess you can make it opt in

[pablodekota]

I don't know if the Dev even has this on his to-do list, but would be very cool to have, either someone integrates it or the dev himself, would like to get a update on this from the dev

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#1130 closes this issue.