• Amicese@lemmy.mlOP
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    3 years ago

    Why not include [Sponsor Block] into an open source app?

    • The implementation of SponsorBlock is not in the dev team’s goals; and not everyone wants SponsorBlock. (This may be hard to believe for some, but some people don’t want sponsorships to be blocked.)
    • There could be too much cost added for little benefit. (An enable-disable option can be added; but there is still cost to maintain the feature.)

    People can fork NewPipe anyway; it is free and open-source.

    If you want SponsorBlock in Newpipe, then fork NewPipe, or use a fork if you can find one.. If you don’t want SponsorBlock in your NewPipe instance; then use the base application.

    • ster@lemmy.ml
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      3 years ago

      If people don’t want it, it should be possible to disable. It should probably be disabled by default.