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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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[–] akilou@sh.itjust.works 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

How do you turn it on? I'm on Grayjay v 195 but I'm not seeing the option in settings.

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[–] Kuro@lemm.ee 2 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Are they even able to see when their baked in ads get skipped over?

[–] cyanarchy@sh.itjust.works 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Probably, I'm fairly certain they get told which parts of the video get skipped and which get rewatched.

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