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”?
I block all advertising myself, but sponsors I think are ok. The creator can control who they sponsor with, they can write a funny ad skit that is entertaining (the best ones I have seen are the ones by squishy boi) and the creator gets paid directly without fucking us with an algorithm.
I’m happy to watch those kinds of ads as I know the creator is getting paid from them, and e.g. YouTube isn’t taking a cut.
Yes but you watching the ad doesn’t make money for the creator.
Ot does if its a good ad / sales pitch and I actually buy the product which is not gonna happen if it is automatically skipped.
This is such a bizarre concept to me.
Why would I want someone to convince me to buy something with a “good pitch” ?
Hey I respect the hell outta this guy for manufacturing desires in me, lemme now buy this shit I didn’t want before he manipulated me. Good job guy!
/s
Someone I watch was sponsored by a PCB fabrication company and the way he described their service I realized I could save a lot of time and money doing it that way.
I don’t think advertising always has to be manipulation, it could just be making you aware of the advantages of a product. Though most adverts are nothing but lies and bullshit.
But scammy sponsors are very common. Most of the promoted products are just trash because the company behind them puts way too much money in advertisement.
How dare you besmirch Shadow Raid Legends VPN like that!
Raid specifically pays BUCKETS
Can’t fault any content creator for needing to eat
I can only assume they’re some sort of front for a cartel because I’ve never met anyone that actually plays it.
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.