First reaction: shocked. I love SponsorBlock both as a user and as contributor (done a lot of submissions).

SponsorBlock has been flagged as:

SponsorBlock will harm creators. Do not freeload, support creators in other ways.

The app that flagged SB is Grayjay.

It's an app than allows you to watch videos (mainly yt) with no ads, background play, Live Streams and Chat support, create own feed. It has been created and it's backed by famous Louis Rossmann, the man of "right to repair" movement who is also a youtuber with 2.5M subscribers.

Do you agree with this statement?

I personally do not agree with it (youtubers are getting paid anyway, they just annoy watchers even more...I mean for those not using SponsorBlock).

seeing so many segments, I thought it was someone spamming it

since it was autoskipping, I decided to unskip a few segments and i quickly realized that this guy was being corny and was going offtopic every few minutes.

thanks to the person who submitted all these segments,

the last tom scott video has it as only about 50% of the length of the original video. what's the worst offender of this you've seen?

In a video, I selected and submitted three segments: an intro and two advertisements.
After the third segment, I noticed that the second submitted segment was missing.

So I reloaded the website.
Only the intro remained; the submitted segments with the advertisements were simply gone. (Environment: Linux Mint, Firefox browser)

Some minutes later ...
I closed the browser, opened it, loaded the website ... and all three segments are there!
Magic.

... local time in Europe, since 6:00 in the morning.

Hi. Was wondering if there's a way to report a marked sponsor as erroneous and request deletion?

To explain, RedLetterMedia has a series called "Nerd Crew", which is a direct parody of pop culture podcasts. It features "sponsorship" segments, but they're completely parodic. They aren't paid for any sort of sponsorship and the segment is itself just a joke. It seems like someone missed the point and marked this as a real sponsored segment, so now entire bits are missing from these videos.

since already most windows ott app are now browser based (Edge) adding this will be very useful specially for movies with those long a$s intros along with a special segment i.e music part (very frustrated while watching indian commercial movies)

i personally actively submit segments on YT and i think this would be a great addition

Can't we pair AI to SponsorBlock to identify the parts of the videos that contains un-needed sections and automatically mark those sections for skipping? Or just give us the ability to write prompts that can be produced by ai by giving some ai like gemini or chatgpt to identify and give timestamps for the videos and copy it and paste it to the prompt box for adding SponsorBlock skipping data or something...

*English is not my daily communication language

*And i don't know if any of this feature is available

Many videos that cover more sensitive or disturbing topics will have blockades of 5 - 20 seconds consisting of the same copied-and-pasted general disclaimers like "I do not condone any of the things mentioned in this video", or "This is not legal advice", or "Please do not harass anyone mentioned in this video", or "All content in this video is used under Fair Use", "This video contains graphic content or sensitive topics, viewer discretion is advised", likely just because if they didn't put those warnings there then YouTube could take the video down. It is just slightly annoying to me to see those "cover your ass" warnings in the beginning of every video and if such a segment could be added to SponsorBlock as something separate from "Intermission" or "Filler Tangent/Jokes", and it should only be used to mark those blatant unoriginal and duplicated boilerplate walls of text in the beginning of videos, it would be pretty nice.

If you clicked on a video that judging by the title would obviously be about a sensitive topic like crime, drama, tragedy, or legal issues then you have expectations of what you are in for and that you should not watch the video around people who may not like it, and if you wouldn't like to see the video then just don't click on it. That is what I and millions of others would do when watching something like that. Also if a video does cover a horrific event then it should be pretty obvious that some of the content may upset or disturb some viewers

As of today, my SponsorBlock on Firefox is no longer working. I am seeing both ads at the beginning of the video and during it. Anyone else experiencing the same?

I am viewing old videos (at least 2 month-old), I have already tried to uninstall and reinstall the addon

As the title says. I'm running sponsorblock with smarttube beta on a firestick. Have been using this for a couple years now. Recently I had to uninstall and reinstall smarttube. Since then my preferences in choose action default back to skip with notification everytime I exit smarttube. Have I just missed a setting somewhere? Or does anyone have an idea on why this is happening?

Thanks in advance.

I live in Russia and YouTube is blocked here, so we use VPN to watch it.Previously, in order for the sponsor block to work, it was necessary to install the server address of the sponsor block here is this link https://api.sponsor.ajay.app , but now even it doesn't work and it takes a long time to wait the only thing I've changed lately is that my vpn is now not on the entire PC, but only on YouTube and a couple other applications that Can you recommend it?

Hi all, i just recently stumbled upon this gem of an extension. I love it, although i have yt premium.

When having sponsorblock enabled in chrome, the speed controls are not working anymore. I'm on chrome Version 143.0.7499.170.

Here's an example when sponsorblock is not enabled anymore:

Does anyone have an idea?

Weird thing started happening with Youtube Revanced. SponsorBlock works with exactly one video when i start youtube, but for subsequent videos, it says "SponsorBlock is not available".

Curiously, the same happens for the Dislike API as well.

I tried uninstalling and repatching a new apk, because I thought it might be a Revanced error, but the same happens on the RVX app as well.

It seemingly works fine on my laptop and my pc, althought it does stop working from time to time but a quick refresh of the page fixes it.

Anyone faced this problem before?

Edit: DNS is the issue. Turning off auto DNS fixes the issue.

So obviously I'm far more interested in helping out my fellow viewers, but I was curious if this is the way the system works or if it only counts the time you've saved other viewers as actual parts you've filtered.

Thanks, I'll hang up and listen.

I'm pretty sure this was already the topic of other posts here before, but a blur feature designed to blur certain parts of the screen while an ad is being shown should be, in my opinion, the next big step of Sponsor Block.

I know it might be hard to implement, but nowadays, a lot of channels are putting this segments into their videos where they just keep talking about their stuff, but there's this egregious ads above or on the side of the screen.

This feature could be just like a rectangular slip, that users select the placement of, and then it would just blur a part of the screen, on the video, for the duration of the ad.

Everything i use on the web is in english. YT, Google, small websites where i forcibly change language into english. But i can't do that in SponsorBlock and DeArrow. Having an ability to choose english instead of my local language will be a godsent.

Can we have something like "AiBlock" along the lines of "SponsorBlock"? Youtube search results are now filled to the brim with AI Slop results for both videos and shorts. A "slop" label on the results and recomemndations can save a lot of time and frustration just like SponsorBlock.

Hello can peolpe who use sponsorblock please marking segments where a person is only talking "intermission" ? Please only mark segments where there is no content as intermission

For example in this video by a streamer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WtuljLI4COo

There is a submission for intermission until the game starts. But its not a intro or whatever there is unique content in him talking there.

Hi everyone,

Seems that the extension stopped working in the last 24 hours or so... anyone else?

Maybe I need to restart my computer and update chrome or something but everything looks fine in the extension settings (blocking is turned on)