I started a free trial and cancelled it immediately to have no ads while on holiday. Didn’t realize they are offering some illusion of achievements as a “reward” for your attention, doubling as a FOMO weapon for when you want to quit.

          • dumbass@leminal.space
            18·
            6 months ago

            Yeah, but I don’t want to hear each youtubers cover over the same ad prompt. Plus the youtuber got paid for the ad read already, so me skipping a sponsor read is perfectly fine, I wasn’t gonna click their link anyway.

          • brb@sh.itjust.works
            4·
            6 months ago

            Yeah maybe you are right but I’m not going to buy anything that I see being advertised so there is no point in me sitting through the ad reads

          • Squizzy@lemmy.world
            1·
            6 months ago

            Meh, I can fast forward ads on my tv so this seems similar. Besides some people are excessive with their ads so they deserve out right bans of their sponsors.

      • Cossty@lemmy.world
        1·
        6 months ago

        I have been using dearrow for about a year, cant believe I survived yt without it before.