Compare Chrome extensions: Avast Online Security & Privacy vs SponsorBlock for YouTube - Skip Sponsorships

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Stats	Avast Online Security & Privacy	SponsorBlock for YouTube - Skip Sponsorships
User count	9,000,000+	1,000,000+
Average rating	4.44	4.77
Rating count	26,181	2,211
Last updated	2023-04-27	2024-03-19
Size	1.96M	1.52M
Version	22.11.177	5.5.9

Short description
Avast browser security and web reputation plugin.	Skip sponsorships, subscription begging and more on YouTube videos. Report sponsors on videos you watch to save others' time.
Full summary
Secure your Google Chrome browser against real-time online threats, trackers, and scams. Browse with confidence using Avast Online Security & Privacy. We’ll check every site you visit, from Facebook to your bank, so nothing puts you or your data at risk. Join a growing community of 400 million Avast users. Identify and block phishing sites trying to steal your data. Quickly check the risk rating of any website just by hovering over the link. Block invasive tracking cookies that collect data on your browsing activities. Block online advertising and remove your details from advertisers’ databases. Optimize your privacy preferences and settings across your favorite online platforms. Automatically ask sites to stop tracking you and selling your data. Learn more at https://globalprivacycontrol.org. The data we collect includes: URL - to check if the website is safe or not Usage data - to measure the user’s behavior on the interface and understand how the user interacts with the extension Internal extension identifier (GUID) - to distinguish unique malware hits, to measure product telemetry and calculate aggregated statistics See more	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: See more