17 points Qision 1 day ago 14 comments
satvikpendem 32 minutes ago | parent
crtasm 29 minutes ago | parent
mcsniff 28 minutes ago | parent
"This repo is discontinued.
I can no longer dedicate time to this project.
For alternatives, see:
PipePipe: https://github.com/InfinityLoop1308/PipePipe
Morphe: https://morphe.software/
"globular-toast 22 minutes ago | parent
mzajc 19 minutes ago | parent
dev_hugepages 18 minutes ago | parent
> In summary, it can be said that sponsoring is a good approach. It is fair and non-discriminating to all users, preserves their privacy, lets creators select their partners themselves, and provides them with a larger share of the revenue. Even though there are some disadvantages, it is more or less beneficial for all sides. [...] Ethical advertising, for example through sponsorship, should therefore not be touched by us. This would turn our key selling proposition from being privacy-friendly to being a gatekeeper for advertising. And this is not what NewPipe ever has been or wants to be. We’ve always stressed that NewPipe’s main goal is to protect the users by maintaining their privacy, not to, e.g., provide features a user would otherwise have to pay for, for free. Regarding SponsorBlock: after a lot of discussion within the team, we decided not to support this system. As stated earlier, we don’t consider advertising in general problematic. It’s the unethical, privacy-invasive systems that are very common today which we consider evil. Sponsorship provides a mostly ethical way of advertising.
TomasEkeli 4 minutes ago | parent
ndriscoll 3 minutes ago | parent
There's an obvious catch-22 here: either you are maintaining privacy, and the sponsor has no way to know whether their segment was viewed, so you are wasting your life watching an ad to make an inanimate object happy, or they are spying on you to learn whether you watch it.
Either way I fundamentally disagree with them on the idea that push advertising is ethical in the first place, but it's kind of absurd thinking about people feeling good about themselves for letting an automated device waste their time when literally no one in the world knows or cares or is affected by their decision at all.