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?
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.
You mean like in the early days when people made videos for free and got no monetary reward from it?
Yes. Yes, like that.
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.
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.