• JordanZ@lemmy.world
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    3 hours ago

    Have you never seen this when skipping through a video? The spikes are the most watched parts. They absolutely track what individual parts of a video get the most views.

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        2 hours ago

        The creators sell adventisement space and want the advertisers to know that their channel is a good investment, so the more they can prove to the advertisers that their sponsor segments arent skipped, the more they can charge for it.

    • Eugene V. Debs' Ghost@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      3 hours ago

      Do you have proof it harms them?

      Unless you personally click the link and sign up using code WeAreAScam at checkout, they don’t get anything extra. They already have been paid for the ad read.

      It’s like saying you’re stealing from a TV station because you took a piss during the ad break.