If they personally scan the timeline on a video, they are the same company that gets mad at an ad being wrong because they read it as ThingLy and not Thing-ly.

If they are that paranoid, they don’t deserve to your money.

Youtube does provide info on which portions of videos are the most watched - while most advertisers aren’t the kind of people that do due diligence, quite a few of the big management groups have started introducing contracts that base payout for sponsor reads off of actual watch count

If they’re that paranoid, they aren’t worth taking the money because a YouTuber forgot to include a capital letter in their pre-approved script.

They don’t require it as they already have metrics and data, by the unique promo code from each ad read. That tells them viewers of X will go to the website and buy something.

But I have never done that, because I don’t buy something because one person I like to watch was paid to talk about it.

Honey and that one thing that said “oh you can be a Lord if you buy some land in scotland”, among suspicious VPNs and other “problem solvers”.

If they pay to be spoken off, odds are it’s worth your money.

I’m never removing SponsorBlock until YouTube cracks down on scams being promoted by big yotubers.

So, never.

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.

But their strawman said you do, that’s clearly good enough. No asking questions or reading new information!!

You could read them or just keep strawmaning them.