made me think of this scene from volunteers (rip john candy :( )

ok i deleted my post about bytedance because i did realize it only after posting it that it sounded like shilling for them aaaaand yeah i don't want to do any of that even by chance

that + some friends that are in the group here sent me some sources proving that yeah bytedance and meta are pretty much both not great for different reasons

sooooo i guess we are fucked either way and we should buy whatever hardware is best from whoever we think is worth our money then figure out the best practices to debloat it or at least avoid as much tracking as possible

i know that is not as exciting of an answer as "this company is bad this one is not" (that wasn't what i ever meant ofc) but it is and has been the reality of things for a while now lol

as always love you all this sort of dialogue and feedback is genuinely why i love this community so much

this dude just tried to scam another youtuber that i know but this time pretending to be fujifilm i can't make this shit up

https://x.com/thesoypill/status/1879636123674370412

someone that was probably salty about my dearrow post marked every single word mention of "bambu" as sponsor in my webcam video making it almost unwatchable lol

anyway according to the sponsorblock browser that uses the extension api to obtain info about the submissions these segments were marked by a vip user named jiraph, making them non removable by normal users

i know some sponsorblock vip users follow me and are willing to help so if you can help me with this tysm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K1T1eMyPIC4

this is the video in question ofc

that was a fast answer from them lol

i am just very confused rn ngl lmao how is this supposed to be a better viewing experience when you literally cut out single words

https://wiki.sponsor.ajay.app/w/VIP#I_am_a_new_VIP._How_does_stuff_work?

their own rules say that badly timed segments that degrade the viewer experience should not be submitted btw this is weird as fuck

this might be just me but i think that when, in your extension, you end up allowing marking ad segments that are shorter than a second (sometimes having your browser buffer for 5 seconds each btw) just to skip the single word mention of a brand that yes sponsored the video but also literally manufactured the tool that is being used in the video NOT IN AN AD READ but to... do something as part of said video...

maybe something is wrong with that idk maybe users are better off not using the extension and skipping the sponsored segments manually if they want, just saying

call me biased but i think saying you should be able to understand a video is just... common sense?

they are just crazy

this is happening on their discord server rn lol this is clearly targeted

ofc please don't go hassle people or the discord server out of this 'drama'

this, ofc

https://vxtwitter.com/_remblanc/status/1880366566698885199

there clearly has been some miscommunication here so i also want to report from their side too since i don't hate anyone or want to harass anyone

last post that i make about sponsorblock but my takeaway from apparently involontarily causing a drama (i am sorry to the team for that i just tagged them because i thought this was genuinely an abuse/targeted not having ever seen it before and not their system working as intended) is that the default settings of the extension auto-skipping SINGLE WORD submissions making some videos where some submitters are excessively petty basically unwatchable

the default settings being annoying and actively damaging to the viewing experience like this unfortunately would refrain me from suggesting its use to anyone that is not tech savy and does not know how to disable autoskips etc but also in general even if you are tech savy you could maybe reconsider if you want to use it because of this, idk, up to you

youtube has a built in skip feature too based on commonly skipped segments from their internal analytics data now, soooo yeah idk maybe consider that

anyway, good news!

next video will be out on the 22nd or earlier

as i said it's gonna be kind of a weird video but hopefully in a good way (everyone that has seen it in its unfinished status so far loved it)

the last seasons of american dad have been genuinely great, idk what's going on but the writing is getting increasingly better

the plastic sony walkman aesthetics is so satisfying to look at

hoping i will someday be able to buy a decent SONY PVM without having to sell a kidney

not mine, someone's kidney