Reviews for SponsorBlock - Skip Sponsorships on YouTube
SponsorBlock - Skip Sponsorships on YouTube by Ajay (SponsorBlock)
Review by Graysongdl
Rated 5 out of 5
by Graysongdl, 5 years agoI've always thought it would be cool if something like this existed, and this addon has lived up to everything I'd always wanted it to be! So far it's helped me skip 510 sponsor/promotion segments total, and I've helped others skip 357!
There are public stats for how many segments have been submitted, and how much total time has been skipped (so far, over 2.8 million submissions and 407 years "saved"), which makes it satisfying to submit your own skips (I now see an unskipped sponsorship as an opportunity to contribute rather than an annoyance), as you can always click the icon to see your own personal stats.
Even if you don't care about submitting stuff yourself, this system gets other people to care, which makes the experience better for everyone. It also seems there's adequate moderation in place to prevent pointless skips, as I've yet to see a single video containing fraudulent skips. You can even "revise" skips submitted by others if you feel like it.
Wonderful addon, have already recommended to friends.
There are public stats for how many segments have been submitted, and how much total time has been skipped (so far, over 2.8 million submissions and 407 years "saved"), which makes it satisfying to submit your own skips (I now see an unskipped sponsorship as an opportunity to contribute rather than an annoyance), as you can always click the icon to see your own personal stats.
Even if you don't care about submitting stuff yourself, this system gets other people to care, which makes the experience better for everyone. It also seems there's adequate moderation in place to prevent pointless skips, as I've yet to see a single video containing fraudulent skips. You can even "revise" skips submitted by others if you feel like it.
Wonderful addon, have already recommended to friends.
3,220 reviews
- Rated 3 out of 5by KaiM4K, 11 hours agoSponsorBlock is an absolute necessity for using YouTube. Unfortunately, the Firefox extension at least doesn't seem to work reliably anymore.
Regularly I'm experiencing that although the segments are listed in the timeline, they are not skipped. I cannot reproduce on which circumstances this behavior starts, but it's pretty annoying. - Rated 2 out of 5by LadyBunny, 4 days agoA really fantastic app that I wish someone else would make, but more about skipping annoying sponsor reads and less about policing anything the insanely anal retentive users of SponsorBlock deem to be 'non-content'. This is made by the same people as the soulless DeArrow add-on that lets users basically rename/rethumbnail anything they deem as "clickbait" (which is only based in the actual definition of clickbait 30% of the time) and shares a solid chunk of the same userbase, and it shows.
The entire system of SponsorBlock is based on upvoting and downvoting different segments to try and get the perfect edits. There are are plenty of people doing the Lord's work out there and giving us seemless skips - and really, I don't even mind a choppy skip, i just like that I don't have to click and skip myself. The problem with this is that from what I've seen I'm pretty sure it's only a very small minority that actually go into SponsorBlock and check different segments, because anything they don't agree with is insanely review bombed by those people. I'm also rather sure that all segments are just whatever was first submitted to the video, or what was changed by a mod of some sorts after being reported in their Discord (because yes, of course the only place to get support, report, or anything is a Discord).
Speaking of, this app + DeArrow have basically no moderation, and in some parts have absolutely NO moderation, as confirmed in their Discord! If you want to totally screw up a very small creator's day? Have absolutely at it. It only gets caught if someone reports it, and reports only happen a few times a day at most.
(Disclaimer: Don't do this? Shouldn't have to say that, but I'm saying this to point out that this is a major flaw in the system nobody seems to care about.)
Overall, download the add-on and just turn on sponsor skipping alone. Nothing else in those settings is worth diddly-squat. - Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 20180304, 5 days ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Yoshi, 7 days ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 14551203, 7 days ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 20174249, 8 days agoя недумал што он на руских видосах работать будет ОН РАБОТОЕТ И САМ СКИПОЕТ ИНТЕГРАТСЕИ!!!!!!! 99/5
- Rated 5 out of 5by Benjamin, 9 days ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Abe, 11 days ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by onigari, 11 days ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Mark, 12 days ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 20164089, 12 days agoFunctions poorly (which is to say inconsistently) and expects the user to agree to terms unnecessary to the function of the extension.
- Rated 4 out of 5by earthboss, 15 days ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by DeadMonk, 15 days agoРазработчики сэкономили мне часы времени и много единиц нервов.
- Rated 5 out of 5by bobalazs, 15 days ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Shinji, 16 days ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Anteater, 16 days ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 19897476, 16 days ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 20153847, 17 days ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 20153708, 17 days ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by nikola2222, 17 days ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Toblorono, 18 days ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Kurt, 21 days agoSponsorBlock is perfect when you want to skip sponsors directly, I completely love it!
- Rated 2 out of 5by Mats, 22 days agoThe extention changes the caption language to Arabic and there is nothing you can do about it. Not sure if the developers are arabic and missed this, or if it just because it is the first language in the list, but it is very frustrating. Even more frustrating than the sponsor-sections.
I hope they fix the bug so that i can re-install the extention.Developer response
posted 17 days agoPlease check the other extensions you have installed. There is nothing it does that should be able to do something like that