Compare Chrome extensions: SponsorBlock for YouTube - Skip Sponsorships vs Clickbait Remover for Youtube

Stats SponsorBlock for YouTube - Skip Sponsorships SponsorBlock for YouTube - Skip Sponsorships Clickbait Remover for Youtube Clickbait Remover for Youtube
User count 1,000,000+ 40,000+
Average rating 4.77 4.54
Rating count 2,216 186
Last updated 2024-03-19 2023-09-04
Size 1.52M 23.87K
Version 5.5.9 0.9
Short description
Skip sponsorships, subscription begging and more on YouTube videos. Report sponsors on videos you watch to save others' time. Replaces thumbnails and modifies titles of videos on youtube.com
Full summary

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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This extension replaces thumbnails with a frame from the video, effectively removing any clickbait while still showing a high quality thumbnail so you can still get a good idea of what the video is about. It can also modify titles to stop partial or all caps titles.

It works everywhere on Youtube including the homepage, trending page, subscription page and channel pages.

All functionality of the extension is customizable by clicking the extension icon on the top right, you can see the effect that different options have right away if you have a youtube tab open, no need to reload the page. And also on mobile.

This extension might help people who have a Youtube addiction or anyone who just doesn't want to be distracted by flashy thumbnails and all caps titles while trying to find some quality content.

Source code: https://github.com/pietervanheijningen/clickbait-remover-for-youtube Firefox version: https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/clickbait-remover-for-youtube