Yes. The answer is Yes. And Hank Green brings receipts.

  • FiveMacs@lemmy.ca
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    2 months ago

    That ‘feature’ has been around on no official YouTube apps for a long time now. Zero reason to pay for it.

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      2 months ago

      It’s called sponsorblock, and there is no machine learning involved whatsoever. The data is crowdsourced.

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        2 months ago

        That data is also publicly available (of course), so a model could be trained on it. I’d love to say I’d doubt Google/YouTube would ever do that, but at this point nothing would surprise me.

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          If you move the slider on a video you’ll see which parts were watched most. The big peaks usually indicate people skipping sponsored segments.

          You don’t need AI for it.

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            2 months ago

            More data is always better. Especially data curated by humans. Have you not been paying attention? 😉

    • astropenguin5@lemmy.world
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      2 months ago

      As a other premium user, trust me that is not the main reason I use it, it’s entirely to get rid of ads on mobile. I use the feature occasionally on mobile too but on desktop I use sponsorblock and it’s wayyy better both from an accuracy and user interface standpoint.

      Sidenote: I also am on a plan that my parents pay for, though I used to pay for it myself after getting it for free for 6 months and I couldn’t go back to the ads