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·
          5 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·
          5 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·
          5 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·
      5 months ago

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