SponsorBlock - Skip Sponsorships on YouTube

SponsorBlock - Skip Sponsorships on YouTube

Easily skip YouTube video sponsors. When you visit a YouTube video, the extension will check the database for reported sponsors and automatically skip known sponsors. You can also report sponsors in videos. Other browsers: https://sponsor.ajay.app

What is SponsorBlock - Skip Sponsorships on YouTube?
"SponsorBlock - Skip Sponsorships on YouTube" is a browser extension that enhances your YouTube viewing experience by automatically skipping sponsored content and other non-essential segments within videos, such as intros, outros, and subscription pleas. It is powered by a crowdsourced database, where users can submit the timing of such content, enabling the extension to skip for all its users. Additionally, it works with various versions and front-ends of YouTube, offering a seamless way to enjoy cleaner content.
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Stats
Version: 5.5.9 (Last updated: 2024-03-21)
Creation date: 2019-07-23
Weekly download count: 9,663
Firefox on Android: Yes
Risk impact: High risk impact
Risk likelihood: Very low risk likelihood
Manifest version: 2
Permissions:
  • storage
  • https://sponsor.ajay.app/*
  • scripting
Size: 1.52M
URLs: Website
Stats date:

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Summary

SponsorBlock lets you skip over sponsors, intros, outros, subscription reminders, and other annoying parts of YouTube videos. SponsorBlock is a crowdsourced browser extension that lets anyone submit the start and end times of sponsored segments and other segments of YouTube videos. Once one person submits this information, everyone else with this extension will skip right over the sponsored segment.

You can also skip over non music sections of music videos.

Supports Invidious, old YouTube and mobile YouTube.

With this extension, you will automatically skip YouTube sponsors.

More information about how it works: https://sponsor.ajay.app

Source code: https://github.com/ajayyy/SponsorBlock

Privacy Policy: https://gist.github.com/ajayyy/aa9f8ded2b573d4f73a3ffa0ef74f796

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User reviews
User reviews summary
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Pros
  • Blocks sponsor ads
  • Saves time
  • Works well (for some users)
Cons
  • Stops working at times
  • Errors connecting to services
  • Negative experience on Discord server
Most mentioned
  • Blocks sponsor ads
  • Stops working
  • Errors connecting to services
Recent reviews

by LolZoide, 2024-04-23

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Safety
Risk impact

SponsorBlock - Skip Sponsorships on YouTube is risky to use as it requires a number of sensitive permissions that can potentially harm your browser and steal your data. Exercise caution when installing this add-on. Review carefully before installing. We recommend that you only install SponsorBlock - Skip Sponsorships on YouTube if you trust the publisher.

Risk likelihood

SponsorBlock - Skip Sponsorships on YouTube has earned a good reputation and can be trusted.

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