In the middle the YouTube Advertisements starts playing at a louder volume and you wake up :)
replyAmazes me how people in a tech industry paying six figures refuse to pay a tiny percentage of their income to get rid of adverts on something that consumes so much time.
replyPaying for YouTube does not get rid of ads. Only using sponsor block does.
replyI avoid sponsorship read outs by choosing the channels I spend my time on, especially if it’s mid roll. Those people are bypassing the built in ad system and deliberately placing the read out in a place where it’s annoying for you to skip.
replyThere's a very emotional "I'm not paying for YouTube" feeling that some people have. They try and justify it with logic after the fact, but the underlying principal seems too simply be "I'm not gonna pay for YouTube, I deserve to get everything for free!" Like, you get paid at your job where you work, which gets you money. Paying other people money for their work, however, suddenly that's just not ok. Somehow.
replyGlad I'm able to amaze you.
replyI can't speak for other cheapskates, but I personally think it's more that YouTube is still so utterly inessential that if ads ever start managing to get past my ad blockers, I'll simply not watch.
I don't believe it to be ai generated voice. It's too good.
replyOr if it is - why e.g. automated voices reading nyt articles are so bad?