Compare Chrome extensions: Dark Reader vs SponsorBlock for YouTube - Skip Sponsorships

Stats Dark Reader Dark Reader SponsorBlock for YouTube - Skip Sponsorships SponsorBlock for YouTube - Skip Sponsorships
User count 5,000,000+ 1,000,000+
Average rating 4.70 4.77
Rating count 11,275 2,211
Last updated 2024-04-15 2024-03-19
Size 726.02K 1.52M
Version 4.9.83 5.5.9
Short description
Dark mode for every website. Take care of your eyes, use dark theme for night and daily browsing. Skip sponsorships, subscription begging and more on YouTube videos. Report sponsors on videos you watch to save others' time.
Full summary

This eye-care extension enables night mode by creating dark themes for websites on the fly. Dark Reader inverts bright colors, making them high contrast and easy to read at night.

You can adjust the brightness, contrast, sepia filter, dark mode, font settings and the ignore-list.

We may ask you to support the development of the app with a donation. You may see news about Dark Reader in the settings popup. There are Developer Tools for experienced users.

Dark Reader doesn't show ads and doesn't send users' data anywhere. It's fully open-source: https://github.com/darkreader/darkreader

Before you install it, disable similar extensions. Enjoy watching!

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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