YouTube Ads-Skipper

Add-on that automatically skips in-video-ads and closes static ad-overlays as they appear within the YouTube domain. This plugin can NOT skip ads which don't have a countdown, i.e. when prompted 'video will be started after the ad'.

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manifest.json

{
  "manifest_version": 2,
  "name": "YouTube Ads-Skipper",
  "version": "2.0",
  "description": "Automatically skips in-video-ads and closes static ads as they appear within the YouTube domain. This plugin can NOT skip ads which don't have a countdown, i.e. 'video will be started after the ad'.",
  "icons": {
    "48": "icons/skipperLogo-48.png",
    "96": "icons/skipperLogo-96.png"
  },
  "content_scripts": [
    {
      "matches": [
        "*://*.youtube.com/*"
      ],
      "js": [
        "skipYTAds.js"
      ]
    }
  ]
}