Here is my two cents on that question
When I fill out a sponsorblock,
I feel like I have comitted an act of civic duty
I feel pride
I hope others feel that too
I want to ***** on the grave of Ivy Lee and Edward Bernays and sponsorblock lets me symbolically do it.
We are participants in an hyperwar and I hope our side win.
Fellow sponsorblocker,
I don’t know who you are,
I don’t know where you are
But can I see you and I am proud of you
Fellow sponsorblocker, I salute you O7
To stop the nasty goblins and their stooges
who constantly besiege our minds and try to infect them
##Is our solemn duty
in this digital hyperwar
To protect the innocent from their vile endeavour
to have less and want more
Y’all really want people to make videos for free and get no monetary reward from it, innit?
You mean like in the early days when people made videos for free and got no monetary reward from it?
Yes. Yes, like that.
Damn, y’all really want people feeding you for free
Advertising made art is an affront to art and should not exist, should not be permitted to exist, it is a corruption of our mental space
I want google youtube facebook amazon apple and the ENTIRE ADVERTISING MARKETING PUBLIC RELATION ETC. INDUSTRY to die an ignominious death.
I want NO ART WHATSOEVER nor journalism, to be advertising funded.
I want to abolish all intellectual property, all created artworks of any kinds to be the infinite freely reproducible goods that they are
I want all art, journalism to be paid in advance and reliably so the people who do it and are good at it have a respectable life and not “just the rockstar” decided by distribution executives
I want all blitzscaled and hyperscaled companies to crash and burn, they are price predator anti-competitive monopolist
I want all giant institution to be abundantly and unambiguously good for us and not just good for shareholder profit
I want all the scum trying to hack my brain with endless manipulation tactics to have their mouth filled with ash and regret
I want to stop all the peeping eyes spying on me in the showers, listening to the vibration of mems devices in my phone and infering my emotional state when I delete a selfie or menstruate
I SHIT TO STOP BEING FUCKED
Is that REALLY too much to ask ?
We know the problem and IT’S “YOU”(*) !
(*) You, the mental pattern that weeps for the ads, ads aren’t free they cost us our free will, that’s literally what they buy, you probably like saying “well free healthcare isn’t free” yes but you know what at least with free healthcare everyone benefits from everyone else being healthy. With ads we sell our souls for more doomscroll and the only ones that benefit is private equity while the creator still gets left behind in the rat race of the tournament economy.
I believe people should be paid for their time and effort. It’s probably not sustainable to be regularly shooting and uploading videos on the side of a 9-5 job, and getting paid from videos allows people to focus on making them. Doesn’t necessarily need to be ads or sponsors, but at the moment, it seems to be how it goes. At least sponsor segments aren’t privacy invasive (unlike YouTube ads, probably).
If you’re directly contributing to someone’s money-making through different means, like Patreon or Nebula or whatever else, then I think SponsorBlock can be justified. In fact, it’d be interesting if SponsorBlock or something similar allowed people to directly contribute to creators in exchange for skipping sponsors.
That’s a money centric worldview.
I don’t think advertisers should be allowed to patron the arts, I think they have infected the art space and this is bad for all of us.
I think people would do better, truer art (even if it were of lower objective quality) by not suffering the incentives and directives of advertising.
I see advertising as a corrupting drug for art. While it creates more bulk I think it has made art worse as a whole.
After the “adpocalypse” where were have destroyed every piece of advertising and cleansed it from the stench of marketing.
This post-advertising world would have more art it in, it would mean more it would be better
Nature abhors a vacuum, the death of advertising centric art would create a fertile space for art that is simply unthinkable at this moment.
Get rid of your moneybrain
Advertising and marketing will not gently let go, we have to exterminate it
So people shouldn’t be paid for their time and effort?
Let us skip the part where y’all get paid and go directly into another month of work. Surely, when everyone stops getting paid, a new, unthinkable thing will come along.
They still get paid and I wouldn’t have been watching or listening to the ad read either way. This addon just makes it slightly easier than tapping the right side of the screen 5-6 times. If it takes me say 5 seconds to save the next guy the trouble I’ll do it.
O7
No, we want everyone to not need a monetary reward anymore and just get enough to live regardless of what they choose to do with their time.
By skipping sponsored segments?
Yes, for example. Or by not watching the content in the first place. Change never happened because everything worked kinda ok, it happened when things stopped working. The french revolution didn’t happen because everyone was well fed.
If sponsored content stops being a viable income method, either the video will stop existing or new ways of monetization will be discovered. New ways of monetization may be “let’s just collectively pay artists so they can make videos”. Of course that’s unlikely, but it’s more likely than continuing with what we do right now.
I’d rather pay for a service directly and have that fund the creators and those maintaining the service, without it all being used for profit of the owners (like YouTube premium). That, or have it publicly funded and enough safety nets that people don’t need to worry and just make videos for fun. That’s just for now, in the future we could go even further beyond that.