There is a worrying trend of YT channels blurring the lines between sponsorship and the video content. For example using same tone and stock footage during sponsor (looking at you Economics Explained). This makes me veer away from some channels and I'm now considering sponsor block...
Yeah, ads are annoying and it's a shame a bunch of their sponsors are scams, specifically Established Titles and those stupid knives. Mainly because they just do what they can to keep going and Den of the Drake makes his ads genuinely entertaining. Only youtuber I've seen who does, actually.
There's a handy extension at least on Firefox called SponsorBlock. As long as you aren't watching in the first few hours, it automatically skips sponsor integrations. Very handy when you don't want to hear the billionth RAID SHADOW LEGENDS "seamless" integration.
