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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 jrmg »

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.

I don’t think it can skip automatically. I’m an Overcast user, and haven’t heard of this - and can’t find the feature now that I look.

It does have configurable “skip forward” and “skip backward” _times_, and will skip to and resume from between words instead of inside words - so it’s easier to manually skip than in some other apps - but I don’t think there’s anything automatic.

[Edit: Oh! It can skip a configurable amount of time from the start and end of playback of any podcast! It’s still manual though.]

Re: iSponsorBlockTV v2: SponsorBlock for TVs and game consoles

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Post by [deleted] »

jrmg wrote: post #31
hedora wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

I don’t think it can skip automatically. I’m an Overcast user, and haven’t heard of this - and can’t find the feature now that I look. It does have configurable “skip forward” and “skip backward” _times_, and will skip to and resume from between words instead of inside words - so it’s easier to manually skip than in some other apps - but I don’t think there’s anything automatic. [Edit: Oh! It can skip a configurable…

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Re: iSponsorBlockTV v2: SponsorBlock for TVs and game consoles

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Post by danShumway »

Sponsorblock has been a Godsend for me; it's something you don't really think about but adds up. The sponsored segments are not even really the biggest advantage, it also skips intros and outros and interaction reminders, which are huge.

I am convinced that being really aggressive about blocking advertisements helps with my ADHD and helps me focus better. I don't have science to back that up, just my anecdotal self-reported experience -- but I see improvements every time I get a little bit more purposeful about blocking ads (and not just ads but intros, boot screens, social reminders, suggested articles, etc -- basically interruptions). And when I see ads now that I'm no longer desensitized to them, they stick out so much and they're so hard to ignore. Our brains are good at filtering things out, but I do wonder if there's a focus cost in addition to a time cost. My mood improves when my house is clean and organized; my mood also improves when my media consumption is organized and de-cluttered.

Re: iSponsorBlockTV v2: SponsorBlock for TVs and game consoles

#35

Post by nickthegreek »

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

I didn’t know about this, just installed and it works amazing. I have premium but I hate the sponsor segments in the videos. If Google breaks this app, I’ll try out the iSponsorBlockTV but this is a better fit for my situation now.

Re: iSponsorBlockTV v2: SponsorBlock for TVs and game consoles

#36

Post by danShumway »

jrmg wrote: post #33

For some reason I feel a lot worse about the idea of automatically skipping sponsor sections of YouTube videos than I do about blocking web ads.

Note that you can configure Sponsorblock not to skip sponsored segments but to still skip intros/outros and subscription/interaction reminders.

Adblocking is definitely the thing it's advertised on, but sponsored segments are only one labeled category. For longer lets-plays it's great to have the equivalent of Netflix's "skip the intro/credits" option. It is an adblocking extension first and foremost, but I still kind of recommend checking it out even if you don't plan to block ads with it because you might still find the other categories useful.

Re: iSponsorBlockTV v2: SponsorBlock for TVs and game consoles

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Post by satvikpendem »

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 should use ReVanced, Vanced is a dead project. Luckily, ReVanced also has SponsorBlock support.

Re: iSponsorBlockTV v2: SponsorBlock for TVs and game consoles

#38

Post by munk-a »

tpmx wrote: post #10

Youtube recently emailed me to say that they are cancelling the Youtube Premium Lite plan ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37649777 ) that I've been on for 3 years. This looks interesting.

Yea, they recently doubled the price of their ad-free version so back we go to ublock and sponsor block.

Re: iSponsorBlockTV v2: SponsorBlock for TVs and game consoles

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Post by munk-a »

jrmg wrote: post #33

For some reason I feel a lot worse about the idea of automatically skipping sponsor sections of YouTube videos than I do about blocking web ads.

I don't - the creator already got paid... and if it devalues ads to the point of sponsors no longer trying to inject marketing into videos and creators relying on patreon/similar I think we'd be in a better world.

Re: iSponsorBlockTV v2: SponsorBlock for TVs and game consoles

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Post by munk-a »

dmunozv04 wrote: post #29
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

Yea - if you're manually skipping sponsored segments this is actually hilariously useful since when seeking through the video there will be a big spike at the end of every sponsored segment from all the sponsor block users.
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