Reviews for Automatic AdSkipper
Automatic AdSkipper by Mileta Dulovic
Review by Jumper
Rated 5 out of 5
by Jumper, a year agoI've seen it in action for the first time, and briefly saw the dreaded yellow line of an ad, in that microsecond I was in a state of desrepair, prepared for the worst, and suddenly the normal video comes back.
The ad got unceremoniously sidestepped, like a side road hoe that was accepted in the car for a certain amount of time, for a price that was willing to be paid, in exchange for a service that often accompanies pleasure,but now it has clearly overstayed it's initial welcome and it needs to be curbed out of the car.
tl;dr
“it just works"
Edit: I have come again the sadly report that youtube did detect the second attempt of skipping the ad, this message comes as a warning to the developer that it seems youtube has caught up to me using this plugin, I turn on again and will report any more detections.
- Third attempt successful.
- Fourth attempt unsuccessful.
Hi, guys it's me again (12/27/2023) I am going to go on a little rant here, but it's not about the addon. In this very afternoon I was in my normal state of mind, working, listening to music, in a perfectly okay mood, until microsoft, or windows 10 to be more specific decided to fuck up my world and suffer 2 fatal crashes back to back.
First crash I chose an option that would try to fix that current windows install didn't work, now that's all fine and dandy, however it gave me the choice of restoring the PC by reinstalling windows 10, it promised me that I would keep my files and that it MAY uninstall RECENT downloaded programs, I don't know if it did it on purpose or it was bad UI that made me select the wrong choice but, despite it keeping my other files, it has decided to clap every program I have ever installed on the pc, including firefox.
Now here's the kicker fellas, I didn't remember my firefox account password, which I had to reset, and in the process I lost all the data connected to the firefox account (bookmarks,favorites,history).
And now here I am picking up the little pieces of my soul and editing this review of an addon that I had already installed, now the account is a ghost of it's former self, this review the only thing that's left that confirms it's former existence.
The addon stills works though.
TL DR: Windows 10 ded, reset, wipes every program that has ever existed on my pc despite promising not to, and assasinates my firefox account in the process.
The ad got unceremoniously sidestepped, like a side road hoe that was accepted in the car for a certain amount of time, for a price that was willing to be paid, in exchange for a service that often accompanies pleasure,but now it has clearly overstayed it's initial welcome and it needs to be curbed out of the car.
tl;dr
“it just works"
Edit: I have come again the sadly report that youtube did detect the second attempt of skipping the ad, this message comes as a warning to the developer that it seems youtube has caught up to me using this plugin, I turn on again and will report any more detections.
- Third attempt successful.
- Fourth attempt unsuccessful.
Hi, guys it's me again (12/27/2023) I am going to go on a little rant here, but it's not about the addon. In this very afternoon I was in my normal state of mind, working, listening to music, in a perfectly okay mood, until microsoft, or windows 10 to be more specific decided to fuck up my world and suffer 2 fatal crashes back to back.
First crash I chose an option that would try to fix that current windows install didn't work, now that's all fine and dandy, however it gave me the choice of restoring the PC by reinstalling windows 10, it promised me that I would keep my files and that it MAY uninstall RECENT downloaded programs, I don't know if it did it on purpose or it was bad UI that made me select the wrong choice but, despite it keeping my other files, it has decided to clap every program I have ever installed on the pc, including firefox.
Now here's the kicker fellas, I didn't remember my firefox account password, which I had to reset, and in the process I lost all the data connected to the firefox account (bookmarks,favorites,history).
And now here I am picking up the little pieces of my soul and editing this review of an addon that I had already installed, now the account is a ghost of it's former self, this review the only thing that's left that confirms it's former existence.
The addon stills works though.
TL DR: Windows 10 ded, reset, wipes every program that has ever existed on my pc despite promising not to, and assasinates my firefox account in the process.
Developer response
posted a year ago"like a side road hoe that was accepted in the car for a certain amount of time, for a price that was willing to be paid, in exchange for a service that often accompanies pleasure,but now it has clearly overstayed it's initial welcome and it needs to be curbed out of the car". I almost fell from my damn chair reading this. You are a damn legend
As for the issue. If you are getting "Ad blocker detected", that is because you have/had adblocker and they flagged your browser. Try disabling your adblocker, clearing cache, reopen your browser and then it should work. If it doesn't I am afraid they won't let you open youtube no matter what, and then my extension won't work, so you might need to change your browser. Maybe try testing on a different browser to see if it works without an issue.
Also, I am aware that few ads are not skipped and the next update should fix that issue. If it doesn't then I will search for a different solution.
Thank you so much for this. It really made my day
As for the issue. If you are getting "Ad blocker detected", that is because you have/had adblocker and they flagged your browser. Try disabling your adblocker, clearing cache, reopen your browser and then it should work. If it doesn't I am afraid they won't let you open youtube no matter what, and then my extension won't work, so you might need to change your browser. Maybe try testing on a different browser to see if it works without an issue.
Also, I am aware that few ads are not skipped and the next update should fix that issue. If it doesn't then I will search for a different solution.
Thank you so much for this. It really made my day
87 reviews
- Rated 5 out of 5by Porter, 4 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Oddbrother, 5 months ago
- Rated 3 out of 5by Gabriel, 7 months agoI love this but it has stopped working with the new updates. Youtube registers it as an ad blocker and refreshes the page until the video entirely restarts.
- Rated 5 out of 5by indiana, 8 months ago
- Rated 3 out of 5by Firefox user 18491709, 10 months agoIt is not bad ad skipping add-on, it works well in taht area. But it slows youtube down significantly and recetly my youtube history stopped working because of it. Please fix it as soon as possible.
- Rated 1 out of 5by Ehz, 10 months agoSince the last update, (June 14th 2024), AdSkipper fuck up the youtube historic. I had to disable the extension to get my historic register again.
It disable autoplay and add a crazy lag with youtube.
Since I disable the extension everything is back to normal.
Please rollback to the previous version of the extension - Rated 1 out of 5by jfjjrmfjg, 10 months agoFor some reason, it randomly started completely disabling autoplay in playlists and it also randomly started showing the "more videos" embed when pausing videos, though that one only appears in some videos and I am not sure if this extension is the cause of that one. And yes, I am on version 3.2.
Developer response
posted 10 months agoVersion 3.2 is up and running today. Make sure you update it and everything should work. I will close this but if problem persists, please contact me.
Thanks.- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 18253431, a year agoThis extension is not working. Has there been a fix or an update? Thx!
Developer response
posted 10 months agoVersion 3.2 is up and running today. Make sure you update it and everything should work. I will close this but if problem persists, please contact me.
Thanks. - Rated 5 out of 5by BunnyDolly, a year agoIt has updated to 3.2 and the issues are still present.
Even though I have the 3.0 version it is causing issues with youtube. I don't know if it is youtube that is being difficult (more than likely)or it's youtube being difficult. Other than this the extention has been fabulous.Developer response
posted 10 months agoVersion 3.2 is up and running today. Make sure you update it and everything should work. I will close this but if problem persists, please contact me.
Thanks. - Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 18445408, a year ago
- Rated 2 out of 5by Ericsauce, a year agoEdit 3: Started having major slowdowns again, still on version 3.2. I'm also having issues where the original video will play at the same time the external player video plays, making it so I have to refresh the page to try again. The info about the extension is a little misleading, it doesn't skip ads automatically, it uses an external player in place of the regular player so ads cannot play, but that also removes several features. I'm going to stop using it for now and come back to it at a later time.
Edit 2: The update (3.2) fixed the ad and performance issues! Though some features no longer work because of the update, it isn't a problem for me personally. For anyone wondering, that's because the extension now puts an external player (that cannot have ads) where the normal video would usually appear on YouTube, but because of this some buttons/features will be missing from the normal video player itself and certain features will not work anymore (playlists will not go through the videos automatically, you need to manually click each video you want to watch for example,) at least from my understanding. This isn't a problem for me personally and the few buttons/features that are missing aren't too important to me, but could be for some people. Thanks for all you do Mileta :)
Edit: The most recent bug fix update actually made the issues worse unfortunately. It stopped skipping ads most of the time now, so the ads actually end up completely playing more often than not. The slowdowns I was experiencing before has gotten worse and even slower. Also, the extension has began using a lot of memory and only stops using excessive memory when an ad is playing. Before the 3.1 update, it would still skip ads most of the time but sometimes detect the extension as an ad blocker, but that is no longer the case and it only occasionally skips ads and doesn't work a majority of the time.
Hi, I have been absolutely loving this extension and it's been incredibly helpful, but as of 6/1/24 I've been having major slow downs using it on YouTube unfortunately. Firefox flags it as slowing down the browser and offers the option to temporarily stop it, which fixes the problem. I think this has come from the most recent update that somewhat fixed the issues where sometimes YouTube would detect it as an ad blocker (I'm still having the issue, just not as frequently,) as I've never had this problem before then.
I really appreciate your dedication to this extension and how active you are with taking care of it, and I hope finding a solution for this goes smoothly for you! Thanks for all you do!Developer response
posted 10 months agoVersion 3.2 is up and running today. Make sure you update it and everything should work. I will close this but if problem persists, please contact me.
Thanks. - Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 18444565, a year ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by Mogey, a year agoHi! I'm loving this add-on. It works amazingly as YouTube is being quite pesky with the adds.
But today (2024/05/31), YouTube started to flag your extension as an ad blocker when I wanted to watch a video. It happens at random. It's a little weird as you state that it only skips ads not block ads. Just wanted to let you know in case you haven't picked up on it.
Thanks.Developer response
posted a year agoMake sure you are on version 3.0. It has a fix for youtube detection. If you encounter any other issues please reach out - Rated 5 out of 5by Imperator TM, a year ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by CarlosTorch, a year ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Dust the Regulus, a year agoCreator spam advertises this extension ALL OVER reddit whenever someone asks about an adblocker, just to get attention to it. It's a terrible practice and I will never use it as a result.
- Rated 1 out of 5by Nick____, a year agoDoesn't block youtube ads at all? dafuq all these people on about..? I've disabled all other ad blockers/extensions, ticked the 2 boxes in "permissions" and there's still ads -_-
Developer response
posted a year agoSorry for the inconvenience
You can enable "Show Errors" in the Options page and you can report the error on GitHub or on Reddit. - Rated 5 out of 5by very_kul, a year ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 18302952, a year ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 18291635, a year ago