SponsorBlock for Safari

Name: SponsorBlock for Safari
Price: 2.99 USD
Rating: 4.4 (73 reviews)
Author: Ajay Ramachandran

Skip sponsorships on YouTube

$2.99

73 Ratings
Ages

4+
Years
Category

Productivity
Developer

Ajay Ramachandran
Language

EN
English
Size

9.3
MB

THIS EXTENSION DOES NOT BLOCK NORMAL YOUTUBE ADS, ONLY SPONSORS INSIDE VIDEOS. Use Adguard along with this extension to block both types. It also only works on the YouTube website, not the YouTube app. Compatibility with the Vinegar extension SponsorBlock lets you skip over sponsors, intros, outros, subscription reminders, and other annoying parts of YouTube videos. SponsorBlock is a crowdsourced browser extension that let's anyone submit the start and end time's 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: "Authentication Information": When you install the extension, it will generate a random "userID" that is used when submitting or voting. This allows you to appear on the leaderboard and helps determine reputation of submissions. With this extension, you will automatically skip YouTube sponsors. More information about how it works: https://sponsor.ajay.app Source code: https://github.com/ajayyy/SponsorBlock Discord: https://discord.gg/QnmVMpU Changelog: https://github.com/ajayyy/SponsorBlock/releases

Ratings & Reviews

4.4

out of 5

73 Ratings

Works Just as Advertised
01/04/2022

Funcle PUXXY
It’s great to see the developer of one of my favorite desktop browser extensions wasted no time porting it to Safari on iOS. It’s clean, functional, customizable, unobtrusive, and reasonably priced. While there are still some limitations (e.g., only works in default Safari app and not other browsers or WebViews), these are restrictions entirely on Apple’s side. I have little doubt this will be updated as soon as Apple unfurls their belated extension API at whatever glacial pace suits the world’s first $3 trillion company.
Works Just as Advertised
01/04/2022

Funcle PUXXY

It’s great to see the developer of one of my favorite desktop browser extensions wasted no time porting it to Safari on iOS. It’s clean, functional, customizable, unobtrusive, and reasonably priced. While there are still some limitations (e.g., only works in default Safari app and not other browsers or WebViews), these are restrictions entirely on Apple’s side. I have little doubt this will be updated as soon as Apple unfurls their belated extension API at whatever glacial pace suits the world’s first $3 trillion company.
Love the extension but....it's 100% free!!!
04/06/2022

Bvann
I feel a little duped by Apple since this 100% free, open-source code/extension is being sold for a profit on the App Store. Now, I'm happy to pay for this product, especially since the developer will get something. I've supported alot of small-time developers in the past for creating and sharing some rather nifty apps. I just strongly disagree with the way Apple has monetized this BROWSER EXTENSION and will ultimately reap some profit. Hopefully Ajay gets more than 50%. I bet you can even find it by searching under your browser's extensions....Anyways, awesome little extension that ACTUALLY works and I love the crowd-sourced aspect of it.

Developer Response
Appreciate the concern, but yes it is me uploading it here on my own will. I needed to pay the 100$/year apple fee and buy a mac to compile the extension
Love the extension but....it's 100% free!!!
04/06/2022

Bvann

I feel a little duped by Apple since this 100% free, open-source code/extension is being sold for a profit on the App Store. Now, I'm happy to pay for this product, especially since the developer will get something. I've supported alot of small-time developers in the past for creating and sharing some rather nifty apps. I just strongly disagree with the way Apple has monetized this BROWSER EXTENSION and will ultimately reap some profit. Hopefully Ajay gets more than 50%. I bet you can even find it by searching under your browser's extensions....Anyways, awesome little extension that ACTUALLY works and I love the crowd-sourced aspect of it.
Developer Response 04/08/2022
Appreciate the concern, but yes it is me uploading it here on my own will. I needed to pay the 100$/year apple fee and buy a mac to compile the extension
*Update* Hit or Miss
07/04/2024

MDK210
Update: looks like a ton of issues were fixed including the issue I posted. Changed review score to reflect that. It used to work in Safari (not the YT app) but it seems a month or so ago it’s definitely hit or miss, with more misses. If you watch YT in portrait mode it seems to pick up the sponsor segments but if you start a video and immediately go full screen landscape it doesn’t appear to detect the segments. You’ll need to open the settings in the address bar and refresh it so the video is detected and segments get picked up. Weird since I swear it used to work and it’s solid on MacOS…
*Update* Hit or Miss
07/04/2024

MDK210

Update: looks like a ton of issues were fixed including the issue I posted. Changed review score to reflect that. It used to work in Safari (not the YT app) but it seems a month or so ago it’s definitely hit or miss, with more misses. If you watch YT in portrait mode it seems to pick up the sponsor segments but if you start a video and immediately go full screen landscape it doesn’t appear to detect the segments. You’ll need to open the settings in the address bar and refresh it so the video is detected and segments get picked up. Weird since I swear it used to work and it’s solid on MacOS…
Worth it
Jul 20

cooperrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr
I held off getting this for so long since I thought I didn’t mind skipping the sponsors myself. I was so wrong, this is so much better. Instead of having to tab out of my work for 20 minutes, this is great. Videos that have come out in the last 10 minutes already have its sections scoped out, the community is fast. So worth it.
Worth it
Jul 20

cooperrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

I held off getting this for so long since I thought I didn’t mind skipping the sponsors myself. I was so wrong, this is so much better. Instead of having to tab out of my work for 20 minutes, this is great. Videos that have come out in the last 10 minutes already have its sections scoped out, the community is fast. So worth it.

- Add "or" operator to advanced skip options (thanks @mschae23 ) - Make advanced skip options live update all video pages when edited - Don't auto skip on music videos if non music category disabled - Show inspect button when only one time is selected - Fix preview bar scaling on new YouTube layout

Version 6.1

Oct 30

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