SponsorBlock (and DeArrow) - SponsorBlock is a crowdsourced extension to skip sponsor segments in YouTube videos; DeArrow is a crowdsourced extension to replace titles and thumbnails on YouTube video

Submitted ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨jimmydoreisalefty@lemmy.world⁩ to ⁨newcommunities@lemmy.world⁩

Link:

lemmy.world/c/sponsorblock
!sponsorblock@lemmy.world

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 highlight.

The source code is fully open and the database can be downloaded by anyone. I want to keep this as open as possible! You can view the docs for the public API or host a mirror.

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rglullis@communick.news ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
I use Sponsorblock, enjoy it, and promote it whenever appropriate… but do we really a whole community for that? What do you want to talk about it there?

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- jimmydoreisalefty@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  hahaha, interesting, thanks for the questions!
  
  do we really a whole community for that?
  
  Why not.
  
  It is just another new community like many on lemmy.
  
  What do you want to talk about it there?
  
  People can talk about SponsorBlock and the like.
  
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  - rglullis@communick.news ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    I honestly do not get it. Look at the pinned post: “Creating a new community is easy, but to get people on board, you need to create some content.”
    
    Please, let’s not get into this habit of creating communities without having any clear purpose. It only makes things look even deader than they already are.
    
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- Blaze@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  
  What do you want to talk about it there?
  
  Intrigued as well
  
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dwindling7373@feddit.it ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Daily reminder that SponsorBlock, unlike adiacent solutions (Like AdBlocks for example) is not necessarily “good”.

Explicit sponsorship inside a video is considered to be one of a few good solution to the issue of content creators being naturally subjected to death by starvation.

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- jimmydoreisalefty@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  IMO: Ads are ads, even if they come from the creator themselves.
  
  People will support them if they can and if they want to.
  
  Many ways to support them, direct funding, talking about them, making communities, and other stuff.
  
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  - dwindling7373@feddit.it ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    That’s not your opinion. Ads are, indeed, ads.
    
    Not all ads are invasive soul seeking tracking nightmares and no, there are not “many ways” for content creators to do that full-time.
    
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- Limfjorden@feddit.dk ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  
  Explicit sponsorship inside a video is considered to be one of a few good solution to the issue of content creators being naturally subjected to death by starvation.
  
  It’s better on the issue of tracking, but if one is just an opponent of ads in general, there is no difference.
  
  I would rather pay someone than watch ads (which I do if I watch their content regularly). I subscribe to Nebula, where a lot of the creators I watch post their videos. I also support some through Patreon. I wish there was a way to pay for just a single video, since some creators only occasionally produce videos I want to watch.
  
  Ads promote overconsumption, and I don’t think anyone should be forced to see them, unless they want to. Also, the sponsors are always the same 10 shitty companies (Betterhelp, Raid Shadow Legends, NordVPN…). I don’t care for these companies, so why should I be forced to watch ads for them?
  
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  - dwindling7373@feddit.it ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    
    I wish there was a way to pay for just a single video
    
    There totally is, just send them a low amount of money or do the hwole Youtube Premium thing.
    
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- lime@feddit.nu ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  advertising is emotional manipulation that i do not wish to be subjected to when not actively seeking it out. doesn’t matter if it’s done out of necessity, give me as a viewer a way to support you directly if that’s the situation.
  
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  - dwindling7373@feddit.it ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    It does matter and most people obviously give you ways to directly support them.
    
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- BaroqueInMind@lemmy.one ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  No, no, no.
  
  Fuck ads in any form, and fuck you for trying to normalize/justify them.
  
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  - dwindling7373@feddit.it ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Well, fuck you as well :)
    
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  - rglullis@communick.news ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Oh, I guess I’ll bite…
    
    If ads are not acceptable ever, please tell me how you think people should be supported.
    
    Crowdfunding is not enough.
    
    The culture is to reject any type of business, even when it’s a small mom-and-pop shop, or an indie dev.
    
    Co-ops could work, but (usually) require some level of affinity between the members (e.g: people from the same geographical region or artists working on some specific style/school) or they require some rich benefactor to bootstrap the venture.
    
    Unless you are expecting people to just provide you free content forever, what do you suggest?
    
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sabreW4K3@lazysoci.al ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
You know I never knew what DeArrow was but something I’ve always found annoying about YouTube is that when a title is long, the only way to read it is to open the video

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- Ghoelian@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  You can also hover over the title to see the full thing. But this also got annoying since they start playing the video when you hover, so sometimes when you take too long it’ll mark the video as played. I honestly hate that hover play feature, who actually wants to watch a video from the start in that tiny ass window? The thing where they’d show some stills from several points in the video was much better imo.
  
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  - theskyisfalling@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    I’ll watch entire videos and then leave before the last 20 seconds of bs is over and it won’t mark it as played for me and you’re out here having videos marked as played for just the preview player xD
    
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  - sabreW4K3@lazysoci.al ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    My Android is my primary device so I don’t get the alt text. Also I feel like I’m letting you down, because so many times I will watch a video from the preview as I just want to watch the video silently and the only way to do that on mobile without messing with the whole systems volumes controls is the previews. 🥹
    
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  - helenslunch@feddit.nl ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    YouTube is increasingly dedicated to making the YouTube experience increasingly shittier, which is why I only use 3rd party clients (and also why I don’t pay for YT Premium, aside from no longer having a Google account at all).
    
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smackjack@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
DeArrow has a bad habit of renaming videos that don’t need to be renamed. For example, ‘History of the Entire World I Guess’ was renamed to ‘History of the World.’ Ain’t nobody clicking on that.

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- helenslunch@feddit.nl ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Any crowdsourced data is going to be at the whims of the crowd. It’s why Steam’s reviews are chock-full of memes that have been marked “helpful” by the community.
  
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alex@jlai.lu ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
This extension really changed my life, or at least my fraught relationship with YouTube!

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helenslunch@feddit.nl ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
What are the chances of having podcasts added to sponsorblock?

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- alex@jlai.lu ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  I believe someone had asked for it and they said it was nearly impossible. You’d be able to do it in a single given app maybe, but the « download an episode by default » system, the (wonderful) variety of podcasting apps, and the variety of podcast ad services all make it nearly impossible. It’s somewhere in the issues!
  
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  - helenslunch@feddit.nl ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    I don’t understand what any of that have to do with it. Downloading? The number of apps doesn’t matter, as they’re all tied to the same RSS feeds. If your provider is injecting ads into your podcasts just…stop using them?
    
    RSS feeds + timestamps = sponsorblock.
    
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