• CileTheSane@lemmy.ca
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    5 months ago

    What if I offer you an add-on that would promote healthy life-habits instead of black screen? Would you be interested in that?

    No. I want to watch the thing I specifically decided to watch, and not what someone else wants to advertise to me.

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      5 months ago

      Ok hear me out: an add-on that promotes “Watching less youtube!!!”. Isn’t that genius? It could be 50/50. 15 seconds of blackscreen for people like you who enjoy starring at it, and 15 seconds of “less screen time” promotion. That way you are frequently reminded that you could do better things with your time. Example : “You have starred at a black screen for XX minutes today. Did you know that a basic ukulele cost around 30$ and you can learn playing by investing as low as 30 minutes per day?” On top of it, I will ad a functionality that let you customize the color of the blackscreen! What do you think, are we getting somewhere or what?

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        5 months ago

        Ok hear me out: If I am downloading an add-on for the explicit purpose of watching youtube, then I am not interested in being told by the add-on not to use it. If I want to watch less youtube I will, and I know this sounds novel: I will watch less youtube.

        If I want helpful life tips I will go look for helpful life tips on my own. If I want to be told youtube sucks then I already know youtube sucks. I don’t understand why the fuck, when the entire purpose of me installing an add-on is to block a site from showing me things I didn’t ask for, you keep trying to convince me to have the add-on show me things I did not ask for. The defeats the entire fucking purpose of me getting it in the first place.

        I have stated this as clearly as I can multiple times. I am done trying to explain it any further.