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
    43·
    3 years ago

    No they didn’t. Not bothering to implement it because you don’t believe it’s important? Fine. Throwing away the work someone else has done for you? Pathetic.

      • ster
        51·
        3 years ago

        Sure, it’s up to them at the end of the day, but I can still explain why I think it’s a terrible decision

          • ster
            11·
            3 years ago

            Because it means there will be a fork, which will divide the development of the app in two and waste developers’ time.