What is SponsorBlock for YouTube - Skip Sponsorships?

SponsorBlock for YouTube - Skip Sponsorships is a Chrome extension developed by https://sponsor.ajay.app, and its main feature is "Skip sponsorships, subscription begging and more on YouTube videos. Report sponsors on videos you watch to save others' time.".

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Download SponsorBlock for YouTube - Skip Sponsorships Extension CRX File

Download SponsorBlock for YouTube - Skip Sponsorships extension files in crx format, manually install Chrome extensions in the browser, or share the crx files with friends to easily install Chrome extensions.

Extension Usage Instructions

Available on Firefox as well, visit my site: https://sponsor.ajay.app.

SponsorBlock lets you skip over sponsors, intros, outros, subscription reminders, and other annoying parts of YouTube videos. SponsorBlock is a crowdsourced browser extension that lets anyone submit the start and end times of sponsored segments and other segments of YouTube videos. Once one person submits this information, everyone else with this extension will skip right over the sponsored segment.

You can also skip over non music sections of music videos.

This is open source and the entire database is public.

Permission explanations:

Access your data for youtube.com, www.youtube-nocookie.com:
- Used to modify the YouTube webpage

Data usage explanations:

"Authentication Information": When you install the extension, it will generate a random "userID" that is used when submitting or voting. This allows you to appear on the leaderboard and helps determine reputation of submissions.

With this extension, you will automatically skip YouTube sponsors.

More information about how it works: https://sponsor.ajay.app

Source code: https://github.com/ajayyy/SponsorBlock

Discord: https://discord.gg/QnmVMpU

Changelog: https://github.com/ajayyy/SponsorBlock/releases

Sometimes people call it Sponsor Block or Sponser Block.

Extension Basic Information

Name	SponsorBlock for YouTube - Skip Sponsorships
ID	mnjggcdmjocbbbhaepdhchncahnbgone
Official URL	https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/sponsorblock-for-youtube/mnjggcdmjocbbbhaepdhchncahnbgone
Description	Skip sponsorships, subscription begging and more on YouTube videos. Report sponsors on videos you watch to save others' time.
File Size	1.45 MB
Installation Count	1,316,941
Current Version	5.5.7
Last Updated	2024-02-28
Publish Date	2020-06-22
Rating	4.77/5 Total 2145 Ratings
Developer	https://sponsor.ajay.app
Email	[email protected]
Payment Type	free
Extension Website	https://sponsor.ajay.app/
Help Page URL	https://discord.gg/SponsorBlock
Privacy Policy Page URL	https://gist.github.com/ajayyy/bc5a2eb04bd2294b2734729dd1bc2f7f
Supported Languages	id,ms,de,en,fil,fr,nl,no,vi,tr,ca,da,et,es,hr,it,lv,hu,pl,pt-BR,pt-PT,ro,sk,fi,sv,cs,el,sr,bg,ru,uk,iw,fa,hi,bn,ta,te,ml,th,ar,zh-CN,zh-TW,ja,ko
manifest.json
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