Sponsorblock can be janky to set up. If you set it up wrong it either doesn’t skip or skips unrelated parts. I had to actually double check how to properly set it up.
I’d imagine most people would give up instead of double checking.
SponsorBlock is IMO not that hard to set up, and I haven’t even seen YouTube actively fight against its use; the problem is that the sponsor segment timestamps are community-sourced, which means 1) they might not yet be submitted by the time you watch a recently published video and 2) they’re often very lazily done (but of course both are better than nothing).
It’s basically just one button press that is “Yeah I wanna skip stuff” and if you press the wrong button because most people don’t FUCKING READ you might mess up your settings
My workplace disabled extensions today, and I’m just mindblown by the amount of ads I’ve been blissfully ignorant about. I play music from youtube while working, but every time I’m in a good flow now, getting stuff done, there’s an ad-break that takes me out of that flow. Tiring having to work up that momentum all the time.
I mute my microphone (its input volume is at 100%, just muted). But it always stays muted until I unmute. Even between logins and reboots. I do use pipewire, so there’s a difference. But I believe pulseaudio did the same for me back in the day.
One solution could be to mute the microphone in your DE or WM initialization file. Which are you using? Gnome? i3 perhaps? You could use pactl to mute the microphone on each login.
The first time I saw this, I was in high school - which is a long fucking time ago. At least color the port blue to indicate 3.0 speeds… keep with the times my guy.
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