Compare Chrome extensions: Video DownloadHelper vs SponsorBlock for YouTube - Skip Sponsorships

Stats Video DownloadHelper Video DownloadHelper SponsorBlock for YouTube - Skip Sponsorships SponsorBlock for YouTube - Skip Sponsorships
User count 3,000,000+ 1,000,000+
Average rating 4.36 4.77
Rating count 18,768 2,208
Last updated 2024-03-19 2024-03-19
Size 956.42K 1.52M
Version 8.2.2.9 5.5.9
Short description
Download Videos from the Web Skip sponsorships, subscription begging and more on YouTube videos. Report sponsors on videos you watch to save others' time.
Full summary

The most complete Web video downloader ! The popular Video DownloadHelper Firefox extension is now available for Chrome.

Main features:

  • save to your local disk the videos playing in a Web page
  • support for HLS streamed videos
  • support for DASH videos
  • download image galleries
  • smart naming of video files
  • ability to black list domains to hide ads from detected videos
  • control maximum concurrent downloads
  • multiple options to fine grained filtering videos offered for download
  • highly customizable interface
  • convert downloading or already downloaded videos to almost any format
  • works on Windows, Mac and Linux
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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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