Reviews for SponsorBlock - Skip Sponsorships on YouTube – Add-ons for Firefox Android (en-US)

Sadly, this stopped working about a month ago. Using the latest Firefox available for Debian based Linux distro "MX Linux 19.4"

Normally, I love this addon, but right now it literally does nothing. It doesn't even highlight sponsored spots within the videos.

PS: Despite being a Linux user, I am not an IT expert, a programmer etc etc. I'm just an average Joe who hates Windows & Mac, so.... There's that. :/

by mfvhr591, 3 years ago

by Fouxi, 4 years ago

by Firefox user 16963471, 4 years ago

Great idea, terrible execution. Instead of actually allowing you to skip what you want, certain videos from certain channels are allowed to bypass this entirely and they will show you their ads regardless. STOP ALLOWING YT CHANNELS TO PAY OFF THIS DEVELOPER

Edit: To be specific, whenever you try to skip a certain segment on certain videos the message is displayed:
"New submissions are not allowed for the following category: 'sponsor'. A moderator has decided that no new segments are needed and that all current segments of this category are timed perfectly."

Thanks moderator, you made the decision for the community. Why even bother having one then?

Developer response

posted 4 years ago

Why would you believe such a rediculus conspiracy?

Edit: If you think a video was locked incorrectly, send a message on discord. You are probably referring to either self promotion or fully sponsored videos that need their disclaimers shown to show bias. No one is paying me, we just are trying to not spread misinformation

by displaynayme, 4 years ago

by Soham, 4 years ago

dosent work on most videos

Developer response

posted 4 years ago

yes it does

by Firefox user 16744781, 4 years ago

Works great if you don't need the whitelist function; if you do, seems to depend on whether the addon is having a good day or not.

Developer response

posted 4 years ago

The issue seems to be that the extension doesn't have permission to the domain used for getting the YouTube video info. The next update adds a check for it and will then prompt a permission prompt. The current workaround is to give it access to all sites: https://github.com/ajayyy/SponsorBlock/issues/611#issuecomment-801579094

Next update is still WIP, but that part is already implemented if you want to clone from source: https://github.com/ajayyy/SponsorBlock/pull/690

by Camto21, 4 years ago

by Firefox user 16581095, 4 years ago

by Kelue, 4 years ago

by JfmbLinux, 5 years ago

by DESU, 5 years ago

by Firefox user 15266031, 6 years ago

by Firefox user 15263179, 6 years ago