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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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[–] Blackmist@feddit.uk 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

How dare you besmirch Shadow Raid Legends VPN like that!

[–] TwoBeeSan@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Raid specifically pays BUCKETS

Can't fault any content creator for needing to eat

[–] Blackmist@feddit.uk 6 points 1 year ago

I can only assume they're some sort of front for a cartel because I've never met anyone that actually plays it.

[–] Meowoem@sh.itjust.works 0 points 1 year ago

Yeah, personally I enjoy seeing adverts for things I think are dumb because it's like a shitty game company is paying my favourite creators to amuse me and they're doing it by collecting money from rubes that'd only be wasting their cash on something worse anyway.

It feels like the sort of thing a chaotic hero would do in a cyberpunk romance.