The NewPipe project recently had a few debates on advertising, its ethics and how Team NewPipe decides whether or not a certain form of advertising is acceptable. In this article, we present our position on advertising in general, show the difference between ethical and unethical advertising, and explain why we do not intend to support technologies like SponsorBlock.
    • ster@lemmy.ml
      3·
      3 years ago

      Why not include a perfectly useful feature into an open source app? This just creates unnecessary division. By all means turn it off by default and hide the enable in settings, but don’t just try to throw away someone’s hard work.

      • Amicese@lemmy.mlOP
        5·
        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
          1·
          3 years ago

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