#sponsorblock

[ailurinae]

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If you just use uBlock Origin and don't layer random other adblockers or rules on top, you should be fine on YouTube. Adding special rules yourself or multiple blockers is just making trouble for yourself.

[sox-rok68]

Someone(s) used sponsorblock on Hbomberguy's plagiarism video to skip the parts where he mentions other people's sponsors, and also the part at the end where he promotes other queer youtubers. I'm so confused about why they would do that? Skipping a major point in his video, and one of the things he did to try and offset the damage done by James and give people other, actually good youtubers to watch.

[river-taxbird]

In light of what has come out about online data harvesting scam Honey, here are some important facts to remember when watching stuff on youtube.

Companies that make quality products do not need to sponsor youtubers to promote themselves.

Any exception you can think of, (such as major hardware companies sponsoring Linus Tech Tips to cover new product launches) proves the rule.

Using the browser extension Sponsorblock which skips sponsored segments in videos, is not only your right, but your moral responsibility.

[miraculouslumination]

Using Youtube now with the Sponsorblock add-on has really made such a huge difference and also kind of makes me angry

It's great, because it does what it says on the tin - it skips sponsor sequences in Youtube videos

It's infuriating, because it shows you how LONG the sponsor segment is, so I click on a Youtube video that is less than 30 minutes long and see this huge line of sponsorship skip on the watch-time and am just like...holy fuck that's literally like. 10% of the video??

I understand needing money with the ads-scape on Youtube being atrocious but. Holy fucking shit. Some of my favorite creators are really out here dedicating upwards of 10% of their <30 minute Youtube video to a sponsorship?? What the fuck, man

[fablethevoid]

Somewhat recently I've been made aware of the "filler" category in sponsorblock and I have some thoughts. Read below the cut.

Recently, either reinstalling youtube vanced or an update to sponsorblock added the "filler" category to the sponsorblock on my phone. Now I think this is a good idea on paper, after all youtube videos often times do have a lot of space of essentially nothing in them. This, however, becomes very apparently a flawed idea when you consider that sponsorblock is based on user input, meaning that anyone can submit a section of content in a video to be "filler" and it will be marked as such until enough people go out of their way to vote it as a bad submission.

I have noticed that people's use of the "filler" category is very broadly applied. Two prominent examples I've seen are entire segments of Stephanie Sterling videos where she talks about old toys or her own sexuality and sexual desires (which arguably are as much of the main content of their show as the talk of video games), and stumbling over words that only lasts less than a second of a video essay that really benefits from a minor pause in the scripted talk in my opinion.

Now this wouldn't be such a big deal to me were it not for the fact that sponsorblock seems to have "filler" content set to automatically skip by default. This means that people that use the extension might just assume these likely trivial breaks from the main content of the videos they watch are just not worth seeing, which I find disheartening and disappointing. I would at the very least suggest that sponsorblock makes the "filler" category either something that requires user input to skip or just entirely untouched by default.

Now while I was thinking about this, it led me to think about the fact that people so commonly label the content they do as "filler". Personally it brings to mind how short form content such as social media posts on platforms like twitter (suck my cock elon) and tiktok are most likely training people to shorten their attention spans and patience. Even a slight pause in a video for someone to stumble or think over their words a disruption that's proven to be good for discussions, is noticeable enough of a disturbance to people to get cut out of videos. Personally it has me rethinking my use of social media (even without platforms like tiktok on my phone) and pondering the fact that I seem to struggle with finding the mental patience and capacity for the deeper games I used to enjoy when I was a child such as factorio and modded minecraft. Games that require the use of your mind and patience no longer come nearly as easy to me and that has me concerned.

If you read this far, thank you. I'd ask that you maybe make the efforts to give your brain more time to breathe and think, and perhaps reconsider how media has shaped the way your brain works. I'm going to certainly try and do the same myself.

[jolikmc-thoughts]

Honestly, I wouldn't blame SponsorBlock for blocking submissions from me after this one. Even I think this was a bit overkill.

In my defense, this guy goes off on so many tangents…

[isorottatime]

i'm such a firefox shill. i'll pull out my laptop and people will be like oh my god are you using FIREFOX? and i'll be like yes. i am. then i will pull up youtube and show them videos that play instantly without ads

[qwenck]

All of my Firefox extensions deleted themselves when my computer updated itself last night (curse you, Windows,) so here's the list of extensions I've remembered to reinstall.

uBlock Origin adblocker

SponsorBlock

Multi Account Containers

Wayback Machine Extension

Indie Wiki Buddy

[leumasme]

uh oh

FAQ about this

[fleshadept]

just gonna say i've been seeing a lot of talk about youtube hitting people with "adblockers are not allowed on youtube" pages and i have never run into that with my firefox + ublock origin combo

[not-terezi-pyrope]

I caved and installed SponsorBlock as well as UBlock. Sorry Youtubers but I think I've seen enough ads in my entire lifetime that the advertising industry owes me my peace, like, morally

[theartofsalient]

「SPONSORBLOCK」

[silly-witch]

hey what extension do you use to skip youtube ad reads and does it work consistently? sounds lifesaving

This one!

I use it on firefox and honestly it's AMAZING. Here's the download link for firefox: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/addon/sponsorblock/. It also let's you skip unpaid sponsor shit (youtuber merch) intros and outros. I love it <3

[invisible-arcs]

FreeTube is saving my life right now thanks to someone's suggestion on here. if youtube is pissing you off, look into it... it does everything you'd want from a video player with no fuss. It even has my two favorite youtube extensions built in: DeArrow and SponsorBlock. Also download LibRedirect and if you still want to browse youtube like normal or you are sent a video link, you can right-click and select the option to redirect to the video in a new tab with no ads

I am not an expert in these types of things, just a fed up youtube user and these solutions seem to really work.

[gascoignes-homewrecker]

Ublock Origin

Youtube: SponsorBlock (skips ads within videos), DeArrow (replaces clickbait thumbnails & titles), Blocktube (block channels), Enhancer (Quality of Life features), Youtube-Shorts Block

Youtube Mobile: Youtube Vanced/Revanced Manager

Twitter: Minimal Theme extension

Tumblr: xKit/xKit Rewritten, Dashboard Unfucker, Stylus with "Old Tumblr Dashboard" userstyle

Spotify: xManager (desktop & mobile)

Firefox: High chance you'll love it and curse holding out for so long.

Linux: No whiney search box trying to Edge you, no ads in the start menu, no trending searches reminding you about celebrity gossip & politics.

i would move heaven and earth to avoid hearing one single advertisement

[gay-little-treat-wizard]

Sponsorblock and Addblock...

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