Reviews for Youtube Ad Auto-skipper
Youtube Ad Auto-skipper by Shreya Dahal
Review by TigerNightmare
Rated 4 out of 5
by TigerNightmare, 4 years agoThis does what it promises to do, which is good. It's useful for long videos of musical performances where I just want to lie down and not have to stand up or wait for longer ads to end.
Unfortunately, contrary to what people think, autoskipping ads has the same effect as blocking all ads, depriving creators of their well-deserved revenue. According to what I read, ads 30 seconds or under need to play in their entirety, and longer ads need to play at least 30 seconds, with more money given out if more of the ad is watched.
I wish this had additional options, such as only autoskipping after 30 seconds, blacklisting ads with certain IDs or URLs (like PragerU, screw those guys) and entire channels we do not want to support but need to watch for whatever reason, popunder and autoclose banner ads, whatever we can do to balance ad revenue with ad watch time. I get that it might be a lot to ask for, but until there is a solution, I can't in good conscience take money away from people who work hard to provide entertainment and community.
Unfortunately, contrary to what people think, autoskipping ads has the same effect as blocking all ads, depriving creators of their well-deserved revenue. According to what I read, ads 30 seconds or under need to play in their entirety, and longer ads need to play at least 30 seconds, with more money given out if more of the ad is watched.
I wish this had additional options, such as only autoskipping after 30 seconds, blacklisting ads with certain IDs or URLs (like PragerU, screw those guys) and entire channels we do not want to support but need to watch for whatever reason, popunder and autoclose banner ads, whatever we can do to balance ad revenue with ad watch time. I get that it might be a lot to ask for, but until there is a solution, I can't in good conscience take money away from people who work hard to provide entertainment and community.
Developer response
posted 4 years agoThank you for your review. I have been hearing this feedback and I have wanted to add those functionalities but it just has been a very busy time for me recently. I am planning to take some time and work on the extension to build these functionalities in the upcoming weeks. I hope you'll like the additions.
110 reviews
- Rated 5 out of 5by vleeth, 3 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Pijatow, 4 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by cryptomike, 6 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 17308682, 7 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 18593807, 7 months agoIt is working now. Big thanks to the developer who have worked hard to keep this extension working.
I had to reinstall this extension because Firefox wouldn't update this extension automatically. - Rated 3 out of 5by indiana, 8 months agoSince 1 or 2 weeks it does not work anymore. Before it was smothly working. Hope functionality will come back back so the 5 stars come back :)
- Rated 1 out of 5by Spids, 8 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Manisha Mehta, 8 months ago
- Rated 2 out of 5by Firefox user 17950578, 8 months agoIt worked before, but not after an site update. It was around the middle to end of August
Developer response
posted 8 months agoHi! I am aware of recent changes in Youtube that is causing the extension to fail. I am actively working on finding a work around. Developer response
posted 8 months agoHi! I am aware of recent changes in Youtube that is causing the extension to fail. I am actively working on finding a work around.- Rated 2 out of 5by Firefox user 18204444, 9 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by H2SO4, 10 months ago
- Rated 3 out of 5by Firefox user 17144794, a year agoDoesn't always work. It fact, it hasn't worked for like a week now. Sucks cause I've been getting a ridiculous amount of ads.
- Rated 5 out of 5by TomTom, a year agoThe latest fix came yesterday and is working great.
This extension is great when I am not at my keyboard and you get one of those ads that just halts the video indefinitely waiting for a user input. - Rated 3 out of 5by Firefox user 17298170, a year agoDodatek świetny kiedy działa. Obecnie przestał działać ;(
Unfortunately it's not longer working properly. Please fix it.Developer response
posted a year agoI have pushed out a fix yesterday but it is still in review by Chrome and Firefox. It will be available as soon as the process is completed. Developer response
posted a year agoI have pushed out a fix yesterday but it is still in review by Chrome and Firefox. It will be available as soon as the process is completed.- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 18381324, a year agoafter update it works again, yeeeey, thank u dev. this is must have addon (2024.04.26) *(previously it stoped working 2024.04.21)
Developer response
posted a year agoI have pushed out a fix yesterday but it is still in review by Chrome and Firefox. It will be available as soon as the process is completed. - Rated 5 out of 5by ACelata, a year ago
Developer response
posted a year agoI have pushed out a fix yesterday but it is still in review by Chrome and Firefox. It will be available as soon as the process is completed.