• 0 Posts
  • 41 Comments
Joined 2 months ago
cake
Cake day: July 25th, 2024

help-circle
















  • TheTechnician27@lemmy.worldtoMemes@lemmy.mlYoutube is harassing us!
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    42
    arrow-down
    1
    ·
    edit-2
    22 days ago

    FYI, SponsorBlock isn’t just for skipping sponsored segments. SB gives you granular control over the sorts of sections you can skip, and it only auto-skips sponsors by default. However:

    • There are several categories of section, including intro animation/intermission (“an interval without actual content”), preview (i.e. where the information already exists later in the video), sponsor (a segment made in return for payment from a third party), unpaid/self-promotion (e.g. “buy my merch”), interaction reminder (e.g. “remember to like and subscribe”), and endcards/credits. (There’s also “filler tangent/jokes”, but I haven’t tried this one.)
    • For each of these categories, you can choose to disable altogether, show in the seek bar, prompt to manually skip, or auto skip.

    So even if you would never want to skip a sponsored segment in your life, the extension still saves a ton of time if you have no interest in watching even just one of the above-listed categories.



  • Yeah, I’m siding with the French government on this one at first blush. E2EE platforms are a necessary tool for combating government overreach and corporate surveillance. But if you willingly make a platform that’s not E2EE, the idea of users being able to share this vile shit being a “necessary evil” toward the greater societal good completely falls apart. If you 1) have this vile content on your platform, 2) know it exists, 3) can trivially combat it in a targeted manner, and 4) choose not to, then you’re complicit in its distribution.

    I have no sympathy for a CEO who tries to dupe their userbase into believing their app is private and then not even take advantage of the one single ethical benefit to the platform not being E2EE.