Sponsor block just uses crowd sources submissions people vote on. No reason an ai bot couldn’t submit entries too, if they’re good they’ll get upvoted
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trotfox@lemmy.world 1 month ago
How well does sponsor block work?
I wrote a small script that filtered it by grabbing the transcription, uploading it to chatgpt through api, analyzing and sending back timestamps of suspected ads.
These were overlayed on the video scroll bar in yellow blocks. As the video played it skipped these blocks altogether.
It was fun to build and worked well. Now I’m on Firefox and would like something similar…
aeshna_cyanea@lemm.ee 1 month ago
couch1potato@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
I run isponsorblocktv in docker to mute/skip ads and sponsor segments on my smart TV and it works beautifully.
emb@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Reminds me of this: github.com/paprikka/butter
Which also doesn’t have a Firefox version, but I was always kinda curious about.
Actually, is that your project? Lol, you mentioned yellow blocks which made me think of butter.
helpImTrappedOnline@lemmy.world 1 month ago
It works really good.
Any channel with constant 10k views typically get submission with in a day, channels with 1mil views typically get submissions with the hour.
Its not hard to submit times your self, its all built in to the player bar.
Multiple categories that you can choose what get automatically skipped or not.
Some categories are; sponser, self-promotion, into/recap, credits, filler/tangents, non-music (for music videos) and highlight, which is a marker showing where the “point” of the video is.