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SponsorBlock – skip sponsor segments on YouTube

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661 points anotherhue | 2 comments | 12 Aug 24 09:10 UTC | HN request time: 0.909s | source
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nerdjon[dead post] ◴[12 Aug 24 18:18 UTC] No.41227623[source]▶
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chatmasta ◴[12 Aug 24 22:24 UTC] No.41230050[source]▶
I wasn’t gonna buy the thing being advertised to me, so why not save us all some bandwidth and time? Or if you think that I was gonna buy it but I didn’t know it, then you’re admitting you want to manipulate me, which only strengthens my argument for my right to block it.

Advertising is creating consensus without consent. It’s information warefare, propaganda, psychological manipulation… whatever you want to call it, in any other context the immorality is clear. If a guy buys a woman a vodka soda at a hotel bar, can she accept it and return to her table, or does she need to listen to his offer to come up to his room before she can drink it?

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1. briandear ◴[13 Aug 24 22:15 UTC] No.41240403[source]▶
Somebody is buying though. Advertising absolutely works.
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2. grishka ◴[14 Aug 24 04:37 UTC] No.41242590[source]▶
It works on an easily manipulated minority, which means everyone else has to suffer, right.