SponsorBlock (and DeArrow) - Lemmy.World
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Community for SponsorBlock (and DeArrow): SponsorBlock is a crowdsourced extension to skip sponsor segments in YouTube videos. DeArrow is a crowdsourced extension to replace titles and thumbnails on YouTube videos with more accuracy and less sensationalism. — SponsorBlock is an open-source crowdsourced browser extension and open API for skipping sponsor segments in YouTube videos. Users submit when a sponsor happens from the extension, and the extension automatically skips sponsors it knows about using a privacy preserving query system. It also supports skipping other categories, such as intros, outros and reminders to subscribe, and skipping to the point with highlight. The source code is fully open and the database can be downloaded by anyone. I want to keep this as open as possible! You can view the docs for the public API or host a mirror. — Links: - status.sponsor.ajay.app - sponsor.ajay.app/ - sponsor.ajay.app/news - dearrow.ajay.app/ - x.com/SponsorBlock [http://x.com/SponsorBlock] - fosstodon.org/@sponsorblock [http://fosstodon.org/@sponsorblock] - Created by Ajay Ramachandran: ajay.app/ - Logo by @munadikieh: github.com/munadikieh [http://github.com/munadikieh]

Link:

  1. lemmy.world/c/sponsorblock
  2. !sponsorblock@lemmy.world

SponsorBlock is an open-source crowdsourced browser extension and open API for skipping sponsor segments in YouTube videos. Users submit when a sponsor happens from the extension, and the extension automatically skips sponsors it knows about using a privacy preserving query system. It also supports skipping other categories, such as intros, outros and reminders to subscribe, and skipping to the point with highlight.

The source code is fully open and the database can be downloaded by anyone. I want to keep this as open as possible! You can view the docs for the public API or host a mirror.

  • DarkThoughts@fedia.io
    22·
    13 days ago

    it has no ties with “the purpose of youtube” simply because… it’s not youtube.

    It’s literally hosted and watched on YT my guy. Without YT the video would not exist, without YT the video would not be watched, without YT the video would not even get created, and without YT it would not give the creator any way to monetize it - be it through YT ads itself or through external third party sponsoring, which is ultimately completely irrelevant to your counter argument. In the end the videos get made with the purpose of making money off of them, not to provide a potentially interesting video to be shared with others - that’s how YT started.

    Sure but if the content suck you won’t watch it.

    I won’t, thousands or even millions of others do though, because the average user is about as brain dead as the content nowadays on YT.

    • dwindling7373English
      3·
      13 days ago

      You have a problem with profits, mate, not with ads.

      I’m not disagreeing with you there, but also, I like the things I like to exist without waiting for the revolution.

      • DarkThoughts@fedia.io
        21·
        13 days ago

        I have a problem with content made for the purpose to profit. And no, I’m completely allergic to ads, so I very much have a problem with ads as a whole too. They’re just two correlating issues.