SponsorBlock
| ad-accelerator | SponsorBlock | |
|---|---|---|
| 5 | 904 | |
| 380 | 8,856 | |
| - | - | |
| 6.9 | 9.3 | |
| 12 days ago | 7 days ago | |
| JavaScript | TypeScript | |
| MIT License | GNU General Public License v3.0 only |
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ad-accelerator
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Detect when your installed Chrome extensions have changed owners
A few months ago I made a free open source extension to speedup youtube ads that I shared here & hit the front page. Within a week a guy (who commented on my show hn thread) copied it and promoted his version on reddit which went viral and has 300k+ Users [1]
But why copy a free open source extension instead of just contributing? Well... a few weeks later he was trying to sell it on multiple sites for 5 figures. Maybe they still own it but I couldn't help but notice that the registered developer for his extension on the chrome store has also changed since it was originally published.
[1] https://github.com/rkk3/ad-accelerator/blob/main/lessons_pos...
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Ask HN: How do you protect your open-source side projects from copycats?
> They "probably" had your idea in the back of their mind for 10 days, and didn't remember that?
That was just a cheeky response they gave me after I reached out on Sunday (8 days after my post).
> Document their timeline, versus the timeline you made and continue to make your updates.
They first posted theirs 4 days after my Show HN which went viral on r/webdev. I assumed they had just come to it on their own and I didn't realize they had seen & commented on my work until Sunday (8 days after the Show HN).
I mention this in the referenced post https://github.com/rkk3/ad-accelerator/blob/main/lessons_pos...
>Is there a feature you could add? Like muting the sped up ads?
Muting the ads was in the original. But in terms of another feature another member of the community contributed a PR that adds support for Hulu.
- Lessons from making a YouTube Ad Extension, going viral and getting copied
- Show HN: YouTube banned adblockers so I built an extension to skip their ads
SponsorBlock
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Show HN: CTRL-F for YouTube Videos
just use sponsorblock today, works fine on all my devices. https://github.com/ajayyy/SponsorBlock
from mobile phone to tv to pc.
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The creator economy can't rely on Patreon
You are one of today's 10,000.
https://sponsor.ajay.app/
And if you have android:
https://github.com/polymorphicshade/Tubular
- The Self Balancing Monorail [video]
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YouTube strikes again, it seems
The SponsorBlock [0] addon has already solved that for sponsored/ad segments in videos. Rather than AI, crowdsourced timestamps lets it automatically skip past adverts.
[0] https://sponsor.ajay.app/
- Amazon Prime Video Will Start Showing Ads on January 29
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Adfree Cities: for happier, healthier cities
For integrated ads on YouTube (sponsor messages), you can use the SponsorBlock extension (https://sponsor.ajay.app/). If you're using Android, you can also get NewPipe with SponsorBlock integration.
- Adblocker
- Google admits it's making YouTube worse for ad block users
- What are your top browser extensions that have become absolute game-changers?
- Are there any UBlock settings to skip "self promotion" inside youtube videos or does i have to use a separate extension?
What are some alternatives?
FastStream - Stream videos without buffering in the browser. An extension that replaces bad video players on the internet with a better, accessible video player designed for your convenience.
NewPipe - A libre lightweight streaming front-end for Android.
RamaPlayer - A lightweight media player that runs exclusively from keyboard (sorry mouse!)
Invidious - Invidious is an alternative front-end to YouTube
ACNetGLSL - ACNet (Anime4KCPP Net) re-implemented in GLSL for real-time anime upscaling
Spotify-Ad-Blocker - EZBlocker - A Spotify Ad Blocker for Windows
web-fsr - An example of implementation FidelityFX Super Resolution 1.0 (FSR) by AMD that port to WebGL.
NewPipe - A fork of NewPipe with SponsorBlock functionality.
hosts - 🔒 Consolidating and extending hosts files from several well-curated sources. Optionally pick extensions for porn, social media, and other categories.
nextdns - NextDNS CLI client (DoH Proxy)
YouTube.js - A wrapper around YouTube's internal API — reverse engineering InnerTube
yt-dlp - A feature-rich command-line audio/video downloader