SponsorBlock
Skip YouTube video sponsors (browser extension)
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 highlights. The extension also features an upvote/downvote system with a weighted random-based distribution algorithm. Once one person submits this information, everyone else with this extension will skip right over the sponsored segment. SponsorBlock is a crowdsourced browser extension that let's anyone submit the start and end time's of sponsored segments of YouTube videos.