YouTube even has a feature now that if you skip, it will skip over sections that other people skip to. Which in practice does the same thing as sponsorblock, except that you have to press skip ;)

Theres always that bit of manufactured friction..

Yes, I can hide shorts, but I have to do it every 20 days, no way to hide them for good. Unless, ofc, I use extension.

No wonder Google tries to end extension freedom...