Reviews for SponsorBlock - Skip Sponsorships on YouTube
SponsorBlock - Skip Sponsorships on YouTube by Ajay Ramachandran
21 reviews
- Rated 1 out of 5by TimeTurn, 17 days agoDoes not work anymore. Stopped working a few days before, maybe around the time SmartTube Next also had to update to work again on FireTV / GoogleTV.
- Rated 1 out of 5by EC, 3 months ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 17370110, 5 months agoSadly, this stopped working about a month ago. Using the latest Firefox available for Debian based Linux distro "MX Linux 19.4"
Normally, I love this addon, but right now it literally does nothing. It doesn't even highlight sponsored spots within the videos.
PS: Despite being a Linux user, I am not an IT expert, a programmer etc etc. I'm just an average Joe who hates Windows & Mac, so.... There's that. :/Developer response
posted 5 months agoit's not really possible for me to help you troubleshoot via review replies. if you join discord, matrix or chat.sponsor.ajay.app, someone might help you
Many people use Linux, including me, and it works fine - Rated 1 out of 5by nothingforyou, 9 months agoModerators play favorites, shady behavior behind the scenes.
Developer response
posted 9 months ago:( if you are claiming that sponsors are not marked on specific channels I "like", then that is not true. that would be very dumb of me as it would ruin the whole point of making this addon, which is for me to be able to skip the sponsors on my favourite channels... those would be the last channels I'd want not to be skipped.
Videos are "locked" from getting new segments when all the segments have been submitted to prevent spam. I don't know your exact situation, but you are probably mad by either
1. a decision to leave in a certain sponsor disclosure that is required knowledge for the video due to it being required to know the bias of the speaker in the video (example: a fully sponsored "review" about a product, you can't just skip the sponsor disclosure). In the future, there will be a way to add a label to the thumbnail to make it clear that this video is too sponsored for sponsorblock to help with.
2. that segment is actually under the self promotion category but for some reason you believe it should instead be sponsor (just enable that category in settings to skip those too)
3. It is a new video, someone submitted stuff before you and you need to refresh - Rated 1 out of 5by mfvhr591, 10 months ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Fouxi, a year ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 16930830, a year agowon't block annoying outro/ending animations
edit: wrong, moderators have locked certain videos from them being blockedDeveloper response
posted a year agoyes it does, it is just disabled by default
Videos are locked from getting new segments when all the segments have been submitted to prevent spam. I don't know your exact situation, but you are probably mad by either
1. a decision to leave in a certain sponsor disclosure that is required knowledge for the video due to it being required to know the bias of the speaker in the video (example: a fully sponsored "review" about a product, you can't just skip the sponsor disclosure)
2. segments being submitted under the self promotion category that you do not agree with (just enable that category in settings to skip those too)
3. It is a new video, someone submitted stuff before you and you need to refresh - Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 14963485, a year agoI installed this and tried it and was not able to make it work. None of my friends could figure it out either. Out consensus: Does not work! Maybe we missed something... Either way, it got removed. Sorry, no offense intended.
Developer response
posted a year agoyes it does
no offense intended, yet you leave a one star review... - Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 16963471, a year agoGreat idea, terrible execution. Instead of actually allowing you to skip what you want, certain videos from certain channels are allowed to bypass this entirely and they will show you their ads regardless. STOP ALLOWING YT CHANNELS TO PAY OFF THIS DEVELOPER
Edit: To be specific, whenever you try to skip a certain segment on certain videos the message is displayed:
"New submissions are not allowed for the following category: 'sponsor'. A moderator has decided that no new segments are needed and that all current segments of this category are timed perfectly."
Thanks moderator, you made the decision for the community. Why even bother having one then?Developer response
posted a year agoWhy would you believe such a rediculus conspiracy?
Edit: If you think a video was locked incorrectly, send a message on discord. You are probably referring to either self promotion or fully sponsored videos that need their disclaimers shown to show bias. No one is paying me, we just are trying to not spread misinformation - Rated 1 out of 5by displaynayme, a year ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 16744781, a year agoWorks great if you don't need the whitelist function; if you do, seems to depend on whether the addon is having a good day or not.
Developer response
posted a year agoThe issue seems to be that the extension doesn't have permission to the domain used for getting the YouTube video info. The next update adds a check for it and will then prompt a permission prompt. The current workaround is to give it access to all sites: https://github.com/ajayyy/SponsorBlock/issues/611#issuecomment-801579094
Next update is still WIP, but that part is already implemented if you want to clone from source: https://github.com/ajayyy/SponsorBlock/pull/690 - Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 15053502, 2 years ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Camto21, 2 years ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 16581095, 2 years ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Kelue, 2 years ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by JfmbLinux, 2 years ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by DESU, 2 years ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 15266031, 3 years ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 15263179, 3 years ago