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My Favorite Firefox Extensions (alexn.org)
12 points by todsacerdoti 52 days ago | hide | past | favorite | 3 comments



> SponsorBlock - Skip Sponsorships on YouTube: as the name suggests, it skips the sponsorships. I already pay for YouTube Premium, I’d rather not watch any ads, even when embeded in the video.

I really don't understand why YouTube doesn't mandate that content creators make a sponsor-free version for paying premium users. The creators already get much more money for a premium view. Personally I don't subscribe to premium for this reason; if I still have to run blockers (sponsorblock) to really block ads, I might as well run a full adblocker too. And it's not really worth the money then.

YouTube has been doing this a long time but there's more and more sites going like "support us and we'll show you less ads!". No, that's an insta-unsubscribe for me.


PS As some examples:

The Verge: https://www.theverge.com/subscribe - "Fewer, better ads!"

The Guardian: https://support.theguardian.com/eu/contribute - "Far fewer asks for support" - Uh this is with the 12 euro per month support plan :X If I'm supporting you already, why do you still need to ask for more?? And they also don't even offer the 'digital edition' newspaper in EU, only the weekly magazine.


Sideberry is the number one reason I stay on Firefox.




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