• Sponsorblock can be janky to set up. If you set it up wrong it either doesn’t skip or skips unrelated parts. I had to actually double check how to properly set it up.

    I’d imagine most people would give up instead of double checking.

    I agree on adblock tho. uBlock Origin is amazing

    • kamen
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      121 year ago

      SponsorBlock is IMO not that hard to set up, and I haven’t even seen YouTube actively fight against its use; the problem is that the sponsor segment timestamps are community-sourced, which means 1) they might not yet be submitted by the time you watch a recently published video and 2) they’re often very lazily done (but of course both are better than nothing).

      • SSTF
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        51 year ago

        It’s really nice to have videos do it automatically though. I don’t even think about it anymore.

      • No, but with sponserblock I don’t have to, it’s automated for me.

        Is standing by your microwave for 60 seconds that hard? No, but the ability to set a timer and have it turn off after 60 seconds is mighty convenient.

    • @jol@discuss.tchncs.de
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      51 year ago

      I uses to think SB skipped unrelated parts, but it turns out it just cuts the whole ads away so I was always left wonder if there was any ad at all.

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        1 year ago

        It’s basically just one button press that is “Yeah I wanna skip stuff” and if you press the wrong button because most people don’t FUCKING READ you might mess up your settings