SponsorBlock / is on Nostr

SponsorBlock is a crowdsourced extension to skip sponsor segments in YouTube videos.

News: https://sponsor.ajay.app/news

Created by https://ajay.app

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2024-08-04 16:34:34

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@npub1rkm…dlxh there is https://milesdewitt.com/projects/peertube-chapters/ which has a sponsorblock inspired category system. It has to be done by the creator though

2024-07-24 18:14:49

happy 5th birthday SponsorBlock
https://cdn.fosstodon.org/media_attachments/files/112/842/825/129/322/842/original/41864c18dc322bdd.jpg

2024-06-30 17:11:43

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@npub1cm0…nxht regaining faith in humanity

2024-06-13 03:47:29

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YouTube Server-side ad injection FAQ
https://gist.github.com/ajayyy/f7b1807e13731c25cef4c2c057d022bc#file-faq-md

2024-06-12 18:21:45

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@npub1px0…ezpa unknown, but there is a separate experiment they are running which requires signing in to view videos which is affecting those frontends

2024-06-12 17:43:29

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@npub1hqz…6ldy they'll have some mangled code to do a conversion between the timestamps in there somewhere to do those things

2024-06-12 14:03:37

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@npub1jvr…8tkt yes, but video length can also change because the uploader can cut parts of it (or uncut)

2024-06-12 11:47:06

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@npub1azl…atd2 how does that benefit the shareholders?

2024-06-12 10:35:03

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@npub1dyq…yuqn the ui needs to change to include ad links, so the data for when ads happen should still be retrievable _somewhere_ in the page. Then just a bit of math

2024-06-12 10:19:19

YouTube is currently experimenting with server-side ad injection. This means that the ad is being added directly into the video stream.
This breaks sponsorblock since now all timestamps are offset by the ad times.
For now, I set up the server to detect when someone is submitting from a browser with this happening and rejecting the submission to prevent the database from getting filled with incorrect submissions.

2024-05-31 14:44:39

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@npub16qa…8k4v apparently there's a new a/b test layout that causes issues. Maybe you got that one

2024-05-31 14:42:12

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@npub16qa…8k4v seems to be working in my end