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.
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
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).
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
You have to set up sponsor block? This is news to me
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
Just change it so it doesn’t auto skip anything. Done.
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.
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).
Is skipping 30-120 seconds ahead in a video that hard if you don’t wanna watch the sponsored bit?
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.
It isn’t.
It’s just intensely convenient where it makes the experience more enjoyable
It’s really nice to have videos do it automatically though. I don’t even think about it anymore.