FadBlock: Friendly Adblock for Youtube™

UPDATE: If you were an user before the update and the extension got disabled, that's normal behavior by Google, it's so an extension can't silently escalate its privileges with an update, in this case FadBlock accessing extensionpay.com for those who want to contribute, nothing else. Nothing to be scared about. You can read the new permissions to make sure nobody's pulling any funny business.

NOTE: And for those who are alarmed about the "Read and change your data" permission, it's not accessing any of your data, it's just to access the YouTube and YouTube Music (new feature!) tabs as it was doing before. You can read the documentation to make sure that's the case,

This is the permission required for an extension to work with the browser's tabs. This includes viewing the URL of an open tab. The permission does not give access to your actual browser history itself, but technically any extension with this permission could monitor tab URLs as they changed and construct its own history, so that's why the warning is phrased that way. If an extension asks for permission to access the actual browser history data, the warning should read "Read and change your BROWSING HISTORY...".

https://developer.chrome.com/docs/extensions/mv3/permission_warnings/

You can google this and find out, no need to trust the developer.

This blocker is designed to monitor advertisements, automatically seek the ads and skip them on YouTube and YouTube Music as well. It's important to note that this doesn't classify as traditional ad blocking, as the ad content is technically "loaded".

Nevertheless, the extension's underlying logic enables it to fast-forward through the ad content to its conclusion. The entire process is optimized to occur within an extremely brief timeframe, typically <=50 milliseconds, ensuring a smooth and uninterrupted user experience.