Out of curiosity, what effort is needed to maintain ratio?

It’s fine if you don’t want to admit you’re wrong, but please don’t preach it to others, because none of what you said is factual. Speaking from first hand experience.

This is not how ot works though.

Modern internet-based video platforms like YouTube do NOT tell this information to advrrtisers, because the sponsor block ads have no contract with YouTube directly. They are paying the content creator, not youtube.

There’s no way for sponsor block advertisers to tell how many people skipped their ad.

Please explain to me how does blocking sponsor segments harm creators?

They are profitable because they data mine the shit out of you. And now they want you to pay them so they can continue doing it.

“I’m sure YouTube could even merge the ads into the content stream so they are unavoidable.”

Who is going to tell him?