It'll only be a matter of time until you can't do anything but watch whatever content Google has curated for you, with no chance to adjust anything at all.
It'll only be a matter of time until you can't do anything but watch whatever content Google has curated for you, with no chance to adjust anything at all.
This is Google's euphemism for building a SponsorBlock equivlient into youtube. It just sounds terrible if they come out and tell you that in addition to removing their ads, they're selling an adblocker. They don't want you adblocking their ads, but they'll gladly charge you to do it to someone else.
You can still scrub the video manually, that's just a separate "Jump ahead" button that skips past the most skipped section.
I don't have a problem with it because they didn't take anything away from me.
Youtube isn't some life or death resource - if they go too far, users will switch off.