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Now if only you could do the same thing for other streaming apps. I’ve tried some dns blocking but it tends to just mess things up.
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.
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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.
I highly recommend the newest Walmart 4K ONN streaming box (official Google TV), which is an absolute steal at <$20.
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.
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
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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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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.
https://old.reddit.com/r/uBlockOrigin/comments/173jmog/youtu...
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.