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Do you use adblock? Why? Why not?
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this post was submitted on 27 Jun 2023
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If you're skipping those manually, may I introduce you to the magic of SponsorBlock?
Essentially, it's an ad blocker for sponsor segments^1^ in YouTube videos: it automates "let's skip this part". It's not perfect because the segments to skip are crowd-sourced, but for videos that are fairly popular and not very recently uploaded it does a pretty good job.
^1^: And other potentially undesirable parts, like non-music segments in music videos. You can configure the types of segments you want it to skip.
It's not just for fairly popular stuff. Anything with any amount of popularity has a good chance of having someone who is really on the ball. I've found videos uploaded a few hours ago by a channel with less than 1M subscribers already fully tagged for Sponsorblock.