Compare Chrome extensions: McAfee® Web Boost vs SponsorBlock for YouTube - Skip Sponsorships

Stats McAfee® Web Boost McAfee® Web Boost SponsorBlock for YouTube - Skip Sponsorships SponsorBlock for YouTube - Skip Sponsorships
User count 1,000,000+ 1,000,000+
Average rating 4.13 4.77
Rating count 180 2,216
Last updated 2022-03-11 2024-03-19
Size 329.73K 1.52M
Version 1.1.0.20 5.5.9
Short description
Stop videos from auto-playing and slowing down your web-browsing Skip sponsorships, subscription begging and more on YouTube videos. Report sponsors on videos you watch to save others' time.
Full summary

McAfee® Web Boost is a browser extension that speeds up your web-browsing and helps save your data and battery life by stopping annoying auto-playing videos.

By downloading McAfee Web Boost, you agree to our License Agreement and Privacy Notice.

License Agreement: https://www.mcafee.com/consumer/en-us/policy/global/legal.html?tab=license

Privacy Notice: https://www.mcafee.com/consumer/en-us/policy/global/legal.html?tab=privacy

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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