I use Sponsorblock, enjoy it, and promote it whenever appropriate... but do we really a whole community for that? What do you want to talk about it there?
this post was submitted on 05 Sep 2024
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Yeah, I don't see much point in that either. Sponsorblock related posts could be just part of a general YT related community instead. Segregating into some fringe communities is just going to further lower the content easily available, making the fediverse appear even more empty. Other instances will likely never see those tiny fringe communities because they won't even federate until someone on that same instance subscribes to it.
What do you want to talk about it there?
Intrigued as well
hahaha, interesting, thanks for the questions!
do we really a whole community for that?
Why not.
It is just another new community like many on lemmy.
What do you want to talk about it there?
People can talk about SponsorBlock and the like.
I honestly do not get it. Look at the pinned post: "Creating a new community is easy, but to get people on board, you need to create some content."
Please, let's not get into this habit of creating communities without having any clear purpose. It only makes things look even deader than they already are.
It's because OP is a tankie — possibly a Russian operative — trying to build as many communities to moderate on lemmy as they can, so they can post propaganda in an echo chamber, ban users for wrongthink, and control the narrative.
I can't find OP in that thread. Is this just conspiracy speculation?
OP is the original poster, so https://lemmy.world/u/jimmydoreisalefty
I just had a look at their profiles, the number of communities is quite high indeed.
You know I never knew what DeArrow was but something I've always found annoying about YouTube is that when a title is long, the only way to read it is to open the video
You can also hover over the title to see the full thing. But this also got annoying since they start playing the video when you hover, so sometimes when you take too long it'll mark the video as played. I honestly hate that hover play feature, who actually wants to watch a video from the start in that tiny ass window? The thing where they'd show some stills from several points in the video was much better imo.
I'll watch entire videos and then leave before the last 20 seconds of bs is over and it won't mark it as played for me and you're out here having videos marked as played for just the preview player xD
My Android is my primary device so I don't get the alt text. Also I feel like I'm letting you down, because so many times I will watch a video from the preview as I just want to watch the video silently and the only way to do that on mobile without messing with the whole systems volumes controls is the previews. 🥹
Jumping in:
My Android is my primary device so I don’t get the alt text.
Use a YT fork, you can customize it to some of your liking; Some come with SponsorBlock enabled right out of the box.
Yeah, I just click on video to check titles, unless you copy and paste yt url then go to a front-end website.
Or Louis Rossmann yt fork...
YouTube is increasingly dedicated to making the YouTube experience increasingly shittier, which is why I only use 3rd party clients (and also why I don't pay for YT Premium, aside from no longer having a Google account at all).
DeArrow has a bad habit of renaming videos that don't need to be renamed. For example, 'History of the Entire World I Guess' was renamed to 'History of the World.' Ain't nobody clicking on that.
Any crowdsourced data is going to be at the whims of the crowd. It's why Steam's reviews are chock-full of memes that have been marked "helpful" by the community.
Not a fan of avoiding clickbait titles & thumbnails, because then you still click on such videos and support those practices. I rather just block all channels using those tactics.
It's a nice thought but unfortunately that's virtually every channel on YouTube, because that's the way YouTube likes it.
Hence why I barely watch YT anymore. The few channels not resorting to this bullshit are definitely a minority and also hard to find.
Interesting, that is a lot of blocking, and it seems like a really small pool of certain types of people and information!
You know what you only want to see; thanks for sharing your views on the matter.
Nowadays, yes. But that comes down to the fact that most people don't care, which continuously degrades YT content to what it is now, and further degrades it into even more of an absurdity. That's why I barely watch YT videos anymore, and I was a pretty active viewer in the past, being with the platform pretty much since its creation. Boycotts unfortunately only work if people collectively pull through, but at least I can say that I personally stay out of the nonsense. It's not like there aren't other things I could be doing.
This extension really changed my life, or at least my fraught relationship with YouTube!
What are the chances of having podcasts added to sponsorblock?
I believe someone had asked for it and they said it was nearly impossible. You'd be able to do it in a single given app maybe, but the « download an episode by default » system, the (wonderful) variety of podcasting apps, and the variety of podcast ad services all make it nearly impossible. It's somewhere in the issues!
I don't understand what any of that have to do with it. Downloading? The number of apps doesn't matter, as they're all tied to the same RSS feeds. If your provider is injecting ads into your podcasts just...stop using them?
RSS feeds + timestamps = sponsorblock.
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