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Grayjay doesn't block ads. It simply doesn't load them in the stream. There is a difference.
Grayjay also doesn't send analytics data back to YouTube, so watching the sponsor or skipping it look identical to YouTube's servers. One can't make the argument that you are supporting creators by watching their sponsors if the sponsors have no way to know that the sponsor part of the video was watched.
As far as I'm aware, creator sponsorships rarely care about whether or not you watch the segments, but about how many people follow the link or whatnot. So you could make the argument that sponsorblock makes you never follow the links, but that really assumes you would otherwise, which...
Yeah, and there are no products that I care about that get advertised by youtubers so I would never click on those links. I don't shave, I don't need to build a website, I don't need a VPN, I don't need a food delivery service, I don't listen to audio books, I don't need earpods, I don't play mobile games...
Listening to these sponsors literally loses me time. I reinstalled revanced 2 months ago and sponsorblock already has skipped 50 minutes worth of sponsors. (oh these sponsorblock stats also seem to be missing from grayjay. Grayjay doesn't seem to have any sponsorblock settings besides allowing you to manually skip instead automatically)