SponsorBlock is a free and open-sourcebrowser extension designed to skip (block) sponsorship segments in YouTube videos. The extension relies on a user-submitted database to identify sponsorships in videos. Extension users can submit segments in videos, and vote on segments others have submitted.^[2] The extension is a recommended extension on Firefox.^[3] As of March 24, 2021, the extension has over 70k downloads on Firefox and over 100k downloads on Google Chrome.^[4][5] Initially, SponsorBlock could only be used to submit and skip sponsorship segments, but support for multiple categories was added in June 2020.^[6]

• SponsorBlock is a crowdsourced browser extension to block sponsor segments of YouTube videos. Users submit when sponsor happen to the extension, and the extension automatically skips sponsors it knows about. It also features an upvote/downvote system with a weighted random based distribution algorithm. Lots of changes Now works on Firefox.
• Since there's no way to build a signed XPI automatically from the latest Git commit, I've created a new package, firefox-extension-sponsorblock, which uses the same method as firefox-extension-bitwarden. I installed firefox to test it and it seems to work fine. This package will be abandoned.

Usage[edit]

Extension users can submit timestamps for segments in videos, and choose a category for them. By default, segments are automatically skipped by the extension. When a segment is skipped, a small pop-up appears for a few seconds to allow the user to vote on the segment, or to 'unskip' it. The extension tracks per-user statistics about the number of segments submitted and skipped.^[7] As of March 24, 2021, SponsorBlock has saved over 137 years of people's time.^[8]

What is SponsorBlock? SponsorBlock is the video content that is added by the YouTuber to endorse the product or service, and It is more likely an advertisement to earn extra cash. Generally, It is a browser extension available for Chrome and Firefox developed by Ajay Ramachandran. SponsorBlock is a crowdsourced browser extension that let's anyone submit the start and end time's of sponsored segments of YouTube videos. Once one person submits this information, everyone else with this extension will skip right over the sponsored segment.

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Reception[edit]

SponsorBlock was mentioned on the Linus Tech Tips podcast The WAN Show on January 31, 2020.^[9]

The extension was featured on Mozilla's Extension Spotlight on July 21, 2020. The extension is a recommended extension on Firefox, and as of April 7, 2021 is the highest-rated recommended extension listed.^[3][10]

References[edit]

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1. ^'Initial Release'. Retrieved December 5, 2020.
2. ^'SponsorBlock für YouTube - Add-on für Google Chrome'. CHIP (in German). CHIP Digital GmbH. Archived from the original on August 12, 2020. Retrieved December 6, 2020.
3. ^ ^ab'Extension Spotlight: SponsorBlock for YouTube'. The Firefox Frontier. Mozilla. July 21, 2020. Retrieved December 6, 2020.
4. ^'SponsorBlock for YouTube - Skip Sponsorships'. chrome web store. Archived from the original on December 11, 2020. Retrieved December 6, 2020.
5. ^'SponsorBlock - Skip Sponsorships on YouTube'. Firefox Browser Add-ons. Mozilla. Retrieved December 6, 2020.
6. ^'Categories - SponsorBlock'. blog.ajay.app. Retrieved December 27, 2020.
7. ^Brinkmann, Martin (January 3, 2020). 'Skip sponsor messages in YouTube videos with SponsorBlock'. ghacks.net. Softonic. Archived from the original on March 24, 2021. Retrieved December 7, 2020.
8. ^'Stats'. sponsor.ajay.app. Archived from the original on December 28, 2020. Retrieved March 24, 2020.
9. ^'Is This The Worst Rated Game EVER? - WAN Show Jan 31, 2020'. Linus Tech Tips. YouTube. January 31, 2020. Archived from the original on March 24, 2021. Retrieved December 7, 2020. If a viewer skips an integrated sponsor spot or uses a browser extension like SponsorBlock—never heard of that— be hurting a channel just as much as adblock, or it impossible for a sponsor to know?
10. ^'Recommended extensions'. Firefox Browser Add-ons. Mozilla. Archived from the original on April 7, 2021. Retrieved April 7, 2021.

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