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The other person's been downvoted pretty heavily so I'll volunteer to accept some.
Sponsorblock is a shitty tool for extremely selfish people that only hurts small-time content creators. You can't argue about your data privacy, malware, corporate profits, sponsorships are literally the least invasive and most direct form of financial support the average person can get for their content without you paying them directly. There's absolutely no higher justification for it beyond annoyance at an extremely minor inconvenience.
You people would go to a little league baseball game and tear down the banner for Tom's Auto Care if you could. Not every attempt at making money is evil.
The creator isn’t losing money. They get paid to do the sponsorship. Skipping the segment has no effect on how much money they get because they already got it.