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Seriously this was very surprising. I've been experimenting with GrayJay since it was announced and I largely think it's a pretty sweet app. I know there are concerns over how it isn't "true open source" but it's a hell of a lot more open than ReVanced. Plus, I like the general design and philosophy of the app.

I updated the YouTube backend recently and to my surprise and delight they had added support for SponsorBlock. However, when I went to enable it, it warned me "turning this on harms creators" and made me click a box before I could continue.

Bruh, you're literally an ad-blocking YouTube frontend. What kind of mental gymnastics does it take to be facilitating ad-blocking and then at the same time shame the end-user for using an extension which simply automates seeking ahead in videos. Are you seriously gonna tell me that even without Sponsorblock, if I skip ahead past the sponsored ad read in a video, that I'm "harming the creator"?

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[-] 1Fuji2Taka3Nasubi@lemmy.zip 20 points 1 year ago

He’s still bitter someone Sponsorblocked his cat segment :-)

[-] sheepishly@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago

That's unironically the reason I don't use Sponsorblock, I don't have any control over what people choose to mark as sponsored, what if they make me skip important content like cat segments?

[-] fernandorincon@reddthat.com 9 points 1 year ago

Sponsorblock has categories and you can choose which to skip.

[-] Draconic_NEO@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 1 year ago

Also it's important to report incorrect submissions since if enough people report them they get removed and the users who do this reprimanded.

[-] sheepishly@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

But which category is the cat in??

[-] fernandorincon@reddthat.com 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Not having seen the video I would think it is in filler/off topic

[-] wolfshadowheart@kbin.social 8 points 1 year ago

You also don't have to set it up to skip automatically, it will play through with a popup option to skip.

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