Reviews for SponsorBlock - Skip Sponsorships on YouTube
SponsorBlock - Skip Sponsorships on YouTube by Ajay (SponsorBlock)
Review by Unbolted
Rated 4 out of 5
by Unbolted, 4 years agoThis extension has saved me alot of time, and alot of clicks! I use YouTube for many things, tutorials and entertainment and one thing that they usually share in common is the content creator having sponsors and simply content unrelated to the video. Now these take up a minute or 2 or even more sometimes, and that's really annoying. Now a minute may not sound like much, and you could say just click past the sponsor, but number 1, with this extension, that can be automated or you can use a hotkey to skip it, so there is less movement of your fingers, and as for "it's just 1 minute", you can actually view stats at the extensions menu for how much time you've saved since using this. It's a bit like discounts, say for instance you can just type in a coupon for 20 cents off, 20 cents doesn't sound like alot, but after a while it can really add up to so much. Now I know this is like comparing apples to oranges but why go through the hassle of extra clicks when you could have 1 or no clicks?
This extension is not a RAM Hog, it doesn't really cause lag to my browser at all, and that's just great!
I am so grateful such extension exists, and with all the customization that is available, I just can't see myself not using this at all!
I have a few issues that are fairly minor but I would still like to point out.
First of all, the settings is a little bit confusing, while the UI is clean and easy to use, the options are not explained well, specifically the skip options and interface section settings. They just aren't really explained well, nor is there any easy to access place to view what these options can do or mean. I just think that the wiki should be set out a bit better as it doesn't seem to load right and it's hard to find what you are looking for.
Now this one is to do with the icon, I just don't really like the design, and since it's displayed in a small format, that small line on the outside just doesn't look that good from a design standpoint.
These small things, should NOT stop you from getting this extension will have a guaranteed benefit of saving you time. It should be noted that as much as you can rely on the community, it's still a community effort to record content. By submitting sections unrelated to the video, you will be helping thousands of people, and it's not too hard to do!
This extension is not a RAM Hog, it doesn't really cause lag to my browser at all, and that's just great!
I am so grateful such extension exists, and with all the customization that is available, I just can't see myself not using this at all!
I have a few issues that are fairly minor but I would still like to point out.
First of all, the settings is a little bit confusing, while the UI is clean and easy to use, the options are not explained well, specifically the skip options and interface section settings. They just aren't really explained well, nor is there any easy to access place to view what these options can do or mean. I just think that the wiki should be set out a bit better as it doesn't seem to load right and it's hard to find what you are looking for.
Now this one is to do with the icon, I just don't really like the design, and since it's displayed in a small format, that small line on the outside just doesn't look that good from a design standpoint.
These small things, should NOT stop you from getting this extension will have a guaranteed benefit of saving you time. It should be noted that as much as you can rely on the community, it's still a community effort to record content. By submitting sections unrelated to the video, you will be helping thousands of people, and it's not too hard to do!
3,219 reviews
- Rated 2 out of 5by LadyBunny, 2 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, 3 days ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Yoshi, 4 days ago
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- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 20174249, 5 days agoя недумал што он на руских видосах работать будет ОН РАБОТОЕТ И САМ СКИПОЕТ ИНТЕГРАТСЕИ!!!!!!! 99/5
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- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 20164089, 10 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, 13 days ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by DeadMonk, 13 days agoРазработчики сэкономили мне часы времени и много единиц нервов.
- Rated 5 out of 5by bobalazs, 13 days ago
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- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 19897476, 14 days ago
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- Rated 5 out of 5by nikola2222, 15 days ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Toblorono, 16 days ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Kurt, 19 days agoSponsorBlock is perfect when you want to skip sponsors directly, I completely love it!
- Rated 2 out of 5by Mats, 20 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 14 days agoPlease check the other extensions you have installed. There is nothing it does that should be able to do something like that - Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 18598990, 21 days ago