browser-extension VS SponsorBlock

Compare browser-extension vs SponsorBlock and see what are their differences.

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browser-extension SponsorBlock
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105 8,735
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7.5 9.3
24 days ago 26 days ago
JavaScript TypeScript
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browser-extension

Posts with mentions or reviews of browser-extension. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-01-05.
  • Advanced and easy YouTube archiver now stable
    17 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 5 Jan 2023
    Seconding tubearchivist. One of the killer features IMO is the browser extension [0], which adds a button on every video to send that video to the server to archive.

    [0] https://github.com/tubearchivist/browser-extension

  • Tube Archivist v0.3.0 - Now Archiving Comments
    2 projects | /r/selfhosted | 2 Dec 2022
    And of course, let’s not forget the browser extension Tube Archivist Companion, which got basically a rewrite with v0.1.0. Download and subscribe buttons are now injected directly into the YouTube page, so very conveniently, you can send links from YouTube to Tube Archivist with just one click as you browse, see some screenshots and installation instructions here.
  • Tube Archivist v0.2 - Now with Full Text Search
    5 projects | /r/selfhosted | 23 Jul 2022
    With the Tube Archivist Companion, your friendly browser extension, you can: Send links from youtube.com to Tube Archivist to download or subscribe to things Sync your cookies for yt-dlp to for example - among many things - subscribe to your liked or to your watch later playlists and to feed that automatically into Tube Archivist.
  • 52% of YouTube videos live in 2010 have been deleted
    6 projects | /r/DataHoarder | 14 Jul 2022
    I've implemented the cookie parsing option for the browser extension a few days ago, so any bug reports are very welcome, please open an issue here: https://github.com/tubearchivist/browser-extension

SponsorBlock

Posts with mentions or reviews of SponsorBlock. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-04-13.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing browser-extension and SponsorBlock you can also consider the following projects:

tubearchivist - Your self hosted YouTube media server

NewPipe - A libre lightweight streaming front-end for Android.

yt-channels-archive - A CLI tool to backup multiple YouTube channels along with their associated metadata and thumbnails. In the highest available quality.

Invidious - Invidious is an alternative front-end to YouTube

squid-dl - a massively parallel yt-dlp-based YouTube downloader

Spotify-Ad-Blocker - EZBlocker - A Spotify Ad Blocker for Windows

yark - YouTube archiving made simple.

NewPipe - A fork of NewPipe with SponsorBlock functionality.

tubeup - Use yt-dlp to download video and upload to the Internet Archive with metadata.

nextdns - NextDNS CLI client (DoH Proxy)

TheFrenchGhostys-Ultimate

yt-dlp - A feature-rich command-line audio/video downloader