Snake-scented oil. (1% snake oil)

Spoken like a true incel.

A lot of guys in my generation have most of their savings in crypto.

No they do not.

You are on Lemmy asking why would anybody fuck with Google?

I'm pretty sure the whole "can be seen from space" is wrong.

According to a different thread "USB 4" is in fact "USB4".

"Japanese people on lemmy, what is Japan actually like?" "..."

wow that's so much better than people trying to help!

That's "Psychonauts".

Not an expert but at a certain point FreeTube introduced SponsorBlock in their code, and posted a blog post describing why it wasn't on by default and how that choice was a good compromise toward the creators and to push for better form of monetization. A similar talk was had by NewPipe. From those link you can find all sort of details about the intended (and unintended) impact of those tools.

https://docs.freetubeapp.io/usage/sponsorblock/#disclaimer

https://newpipe.net/blog/pinned/newpipe-and-online-advertising/

From those sources it's easy to see that those technology are indeed transparent to some form of monetization.

Technology aside, I think it's safe to assume YouTube incentivizes creators according to engagement and retention, no matter the technology used to see them or the ads shown, since what they are ultimately rewarding is the skill of the creator in grabbing human attention. How to maximize the monetization of that is secondary.

And that's why I set my elders up with uBlock.

Because that would be way harder to write.

This is not lateral thinking.