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Louis Rossman/FUTO's YouTube app, GrayJay, now supports Sponsorblock... and shames you if you use it (lemmy.ca)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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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[+] [email protected] -6 points 1 year ago (6 children)

Can already summarize the following conversation:

"I donate to patreons of creators I like so I refuse to watch ads"
"Okay. So you found the Patreon of the random dude who recorded himself swapping out a bathtub spout and made the single most useful video in human history?"
"I donate to patreons of creators I like so I refuse to watch ads"
"Also, I assume you only have a few in rotation. Does that mean you only watch videos by four or five creators and space them out?"
"I donate to patreons of creators I like so I refuse to watch ads"

It is no different than "If the game is worth buying, I'll buy it" back in the day. It is people who feel the need to ethically justify their piracy making up random and nonsensical conditions, that are often refuted by the creators themselves, as to why they can't even be bothered to alt tab out of a game to fast forward through learning that hello fresh have DISRUPTED tv dinners.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Sponsorblock simply jumps the video ahead automatically. If you're okay with doing it manually, you should have no objection to a simple labour-saving device in the form of a browser plugin

[–] [email protected] -5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

People are lazy and labor makes a big difference.

For example. There are some youtube channels with REALLY predatory and messed up sponsorships that I always skip. The videos are interesting enough, but I am not dealing with that. Thus, I'll watch them on a side monitor while I work but not while I play a video game.

Contrast that with other creators where I don't mind leaving the sponsor segment running.

And while I have never understood the rationale of it, I know there are a lot of people who will just leave a youtube playlist on while they go to sleep. Which... has potentials for subliminal advertising but also means the creator gets some free metrics saying their viewers don't skip ads.

What that ALSO means is that channels with better skits or less shitty sponsors get watched, whereas the worse don't. As opposed to everything getting skipped no matter what.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Jesus christ

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