SponsorBlock effectively does this without the creators help. Even directly subscribing to creators these days isn’t enough, they want you to buy their merch and they almost never consider that a sponsorship. Need to stop acting like these big players are barely making any money.

I second the recommendation for SponsorBlock!

    You've saved people from 10,945 segments ( 2d 17h 9.6 minutes of their lives )
    You've skipped 4,006 segments ( 1d 9h 11.8 minutes )

It doesn’t help on TV/mobile though, right?

I do appreciate that a lot of creators have been putting the “progress bar” during the sponsored segment that make them easier to skip

There’s a reason your TV’s manufacturer doesn’t allow you to install browser addons (or for that matter any software that you really control) on your TV.

I think it works on Firefox for Android.

The solution is to stay away from poor content creators such as LTT.

I'd rather want a filter that filters all videos that have '...reacts to...' in the title or certain channels such as LTT that get pushed to my front page, even though I really, really don't want to see them.

Yea baked in ads are actually against YouTube TOS but I've tried to report one of the most obnoxious bad actors (they run 90 second TV-style ad breaks made up of 4-5 premade ads with nothing to do with the presenter)

YouTube legal basically told me to kick rocks.