Compare Chrome extensions: uBlock Origin vs SponsorBlock for YouTube - Skip Sponsorships

Stats uBlock Origin uBlock Origin SponsorBlock for YouTube - Skip Sponsorships SponsorBlock for YouTube - Skip Sponsorships
User count 37,000,000+ 1,000,000+
Average rating 4.67 4.77
Rating count 29,072 2,171
Last updated 2024-02-22 2024-03-19
Size 3.86M 1.52M
Version 1.56.0 5.5.9
Short description
Finally, an efficient blocker. Easy on CPU and memory. Skip sponsorships, subscription begging and more on YouTube videos. Report sponsors on videos you watch to save others' time.
Full summary

IMPORTANT: uBlock Origin is completely unrelated to the site "ublock.org".

uBlock Origin is not an "ad blocker", it's a wide-spectrum content blocker with CPU and memory efficiency as a primary feature.


Out of the box, these lists of filters are loaded and enforced:

  • uBlock Origin filter lists
  • EasyList (ads)
  • EasyPrivacy (tracking)
  • Peter Lowe’s Ad server list (ads and tracking)
  • Online Malicious URL Blocklist

More lists are available for you to select if you wish:

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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:

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