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iSponsorBlockTV v2: SponsorBlock for TVs and game consoles

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Re: iSponsorBlockTV v2: SponsorBlock for TVs and game consoles

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Post by ct0 »

sergiotapia wrote: post #18

Sponsorblock is one of the best things I have ever used in the last 5 years. "You've saved people from 1,927 segments ( 16h 56.3 minutes of their lives ) You've skipped 5,500 segments ( 1d 9h 19.3 minutes )" Absolutely ridiculous how much filler youtube is filled with to hit the 10 minute marks! I hope they never go down, it's a great free service. On mobile phones we use vanced, on my nvidia shields we use smarttube…

shields smarttube beta is one of the best things ever https://github.com/yuliskov/SmartTubeNext

Re: iSponsorBlockTV v2: SponsorBlock for TVs and game consoles

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Post by hedora »

xnx wrote: post #5

I'm a YouTube (Red? Premium?) subscription so I don't see ads, but I'm very pleased to see SponsorBlock-like services spreading. Would love to see it for podcasts.

Overcast (iOS) supposedly can block ads and skip intros/outros. I haven’t tried using those features though.

It also blocks some audience-measuring redirects.

Re: iSponsorBlockTV v2: SponsorBlock for TVs and game consoles

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Post by sergiotapia »

ct0 wrote: post #21
sergiotapia wrote: post #18

Sponsorblock is one of the best things I have ever used in the last 5 years. "You've saved people from 1,927 segments ( 16h 56.3 minutes of their lives ) You've skipped 5,500 segments ( 1d 9h 19.3 minutes )" Absolutely ridiculous how much filler youtube is filled with to hit the 10 minute marks! I hope they never go down, it's a great free service. On mobile phones we use vanced, on my nvidia shields we use smarttube…

shields smarttube beta is one of the best things ever https://github.com/yuliskov/SmartTubeNext

It's so good I sold my rokus and bought two shields just to use that software.

Re: iSponsorBlockTV v2: SponsorBlock for TVs and game consoles

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Post by bisby »

sergiotapia wrote: post #18

Sponsorblock is one of the best things I have ever used in the last 5 years. "You've saved people from 1,927 segments ( 16h 56.3 minutes of their lives ) You've skipped 5,500 segments ( 1d 9h 19.3 minutes )" Absolutely ridiculous how much filler youtube is filled with to hit the 10 minute marks! I hope they never go down, it's a great free service. On mobile phones we use vanced, on my nvidia shields we use smarttube…

You prompted me to go through the FreeTube settings. SponsorBlock is just right there. I didn't even think to look for it. Amazing! Thanks.

I wonder how many of the open source clients have it built in.

Re: iSponsorBlockTV v2: SponsorBlock for TVs and game consoles

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Post by dmunozv04 »

loufe wrote: post #19
dave_walko wrote: post #3

love this, now to find a guide how to set it up on my synology

There's a docker image with some instructions on Wiki, shouldn't be too tricky to transfer over. If I end up making it work I'll do a PR for the project wiki for Synology install steps.

AFAIK some people have used it on synology successfully in the past. A PR including specific steps would be amazing though

Re: iSponsorBlockTV v2: SponsorBlock for TVs and game consoles

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Post by dmunozv04 »

hedora wrote: post #28

Does youtube pass information about which parts of videos are skipped back to the people that uploaded them? (Wondering if this directly affects sponsorship revenue.)

YouTube recently started showing a graph highlighting what sections of the video are watched more (when seeking with the cursor), so I assume they actually give creators proper metrics about this, and it could hurt revenue if sponsors ask to know the difference in watch time between their segment and the rest of the video

Re: iSponsorBlockTV v2: SponsorBlock for TVs and game consoles

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Post by xnyan »

hedora wrote: post #22
xnx wrote: post #5

I'm a YouTube (Red? Premium?) subscription so I don't see ads, but I'm very pleased to see SponsorBlock-like services spreading. Would love to see it for podcasts.

Overcast (iOS) supposedly can block ads and skip intros/outros. I haven’t tried using those features though. It also blocks some audience-measuring redirects.

>Overcast (iOS) supposedly can block ads and skip intros/outros

Overcast intro and outro skip is a thing (that I use for most podcasts), but I've never seen anything like an ad-skipping feature. I listen to the developer's podcast (Accidental Tech Podcast) and he mentioned that ad detection and skipping is something that he's looked into and considering, but as far as I know it's not an overcast feature today.

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