Reviews for YouTube AdBlock
YouTube AdBlock by Martin
Review by a1fa
Rated 4 out of 5
by a1fa, 5 months agoThis works perfectly fine, clicks the skip button as well. But when it clicks the skip button, YT somehow knows and it gives that "dont use adblockers, allow ads" popup. I was thinking if it could be fixed. (opinion: maybe it clicks as soon as the button appears, that gets it detected. Or YT is actively monitoring mouseclicks over ad skip button.) But thanks!
Edit: Also, can you explain what this "boost ad" thing is? I'm unable to understand this, as I have failed to notice that it does anything. (P.S. Hope you get a notif about this review edit :3 )
Edit: Also, can you explain what this "boost ad" thing is? I'm unable to understand this, as I have failed to notice that it does anything. (P.S. Hope you get a notif about this review edit :3 )
Developer response
posted 5 months agoThanks! It's hard to infer their detection algorithm, especially since it seems to vary with location and OS. That's why the extension has many parameters that the user can tweak according to their needs. Can you try to change the "if skip available" value in the extension settings to something else than click button? The safest (to avoid detection) but slowest is do nothing, the fastest but riskiest is boost ad.
Answer to edit: to "block" a video ad we have two possibilities. Either we accelerate it by increasing the playback rate or we change the current time of the video to its end (this is the boost ad). Initially the extension was only doing the former, but it has recently raised issues for some users. So, when the skip button appears, you can either make the extension click it, set the ad time to the end (normally ending the ad), or do nothing.
There is a form in the description that's easier for discussions as we don't get edit notifications. Thanks, we need to provide more docs about the different configs :)
Answer to edit: to "block" a video ad we have two possibilities. Either we accelerate it by increasing the playback rate or we change the current time of the video to its end (this is the boost ad). Initially the extension was only doing the former, but it has recently raised issues for some users. So, when the skip button appears, you can either make the extension click it, set the ad time to the end (normally ending the ad), or do nothing.
There is a form in the description that's easier for discussions as we don't get edit notifications. Thanks, we need to provide more docs about the different configs :)
42 reviews
- Rated 5 out of 5by meows21, a month ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by kohert, 2 months ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Adasd, 2 months agoUsed to be great, but now, for some reason it speeds up regular videos, where there is no ad. I have like 10+ addons and it was difficult to figure out which one of them was causing the problem.
Developer response
posted 2 months agoThanks for the quick heads up. We released a new version (1.71) which will hopefully mitigate your issue. - Rated 4 out of 5by BulletSix12, 2 months agoWorked great until yestersay, atm it accelerates the whole video, not just the ads ... maybe i have to re-check the settings
Developer response
posted 2 months agoThanks for the quick heads up. We released a new version (1.71) which will hopefully mitigate your issue. - Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 18004143, 3 months agoit works wonder as of current, when they seems not to roll out the new method of inserting adverts
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 18575570, 3 months agoThe most up-to-date ad skipper on firefox that works. Therefore the least interrupted by host's update.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 17631626, 5 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 13735421, 5 months agoThank you so much for this beautiful add-on!
On Android, the 'Click button' option doesn't work. Could you please have a look at it?Developer response
posted 5 months agoThanks! Could you make sure that, in the extension settings, "If Skip Available" is set to "Click button"? We had to disable it by default as it seems to trigger the youtube detection banner. We might need to consider keeping it enabled by default on mobiles if it doesn't cause any detection issue there. Let us know in the form if you have any additional feedback or reply. For example, if it doesn't click on the button even when "If Skip Available" is set to "Click button", it is likely that the youtube HTML content (e.g., class names or css tags) differs from the typical one based on your location and / or language. In such case, you can help us upgrade the extension, to include the config related to your region/language, by uploading (part of) the HTML content (when the skip button is visible but not clicked) in the form. - Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 18164240, 5 months ago5 stars for being an awesome app for the months I've been using it!
Had some trouble today, but uninstall and reinstall seems to have fixed it... - Rated 4 out of 5by cdsuitter, 5 months agoIt works, but I'm having a problem with it continuing to fast-forward past the ads and into the video itself, and I'm having to press pause and skip back a bit to the beginning of the video. Otherwise, thank you, I do appreciate not having to be stuck in unskippable ad hell anymore, with ads up to fifteen minutes long we were having to suffer through just to watch a single video.
Developer response
posted 5 months agoThanks for the feedback! Could you make sure "Boost After 2s" is disabled in the extension settings? It might be the source of your issue. - Rated 5 out of 5by Prince Chandela, 6 months agoNew update makes this perfect.
edit: it doesn't click skip button - Rated 3 out of 5by yeastmcgeast, 6 months agoOne minor but very annoying bug has popped up over the past few weeks, otherwise this would be a five star easily. My issue is that now if I am watching a video on a different speed (i.e. 1.5x speed) and an ad "plays" it resets the video to the default speed once it comes back. I watch a lot of stuff sped up so this is very annoying, but again, if it weren't for that, this would be a perfect add on.
Developer response
posted 6 months agoGood point, it was a small bug introduced in the versions around 1.67. The newly released version 1.69 should fix it. Thanks for the catch. - Rated 5 out of 5by reynelfe, 6 months agoes la major applicacion en su tipo y la recomiendo para youtube por encima de bloqueadores de publicidad,
- Rated 3 out of 5by Firefox user 18462606, 6 months agoI was able to skip the ad, but it skipped to the main video for about 3 to 30 seconds. What settings do I need to skip only ads?
追記：まれに3分以上スキップされることもあります。広告が一つの時は数秒、広告が2つある時は1分以上スキップされます。P.S.: In rare cases, the video may be skipped for more than 3 minutes. If there is one ad, it will be skipped for a few seconds, and if there are two ads, it will be skipped for more than a minute.Developer response
posted 6 months agoThanks for the comment; ideally it should only skip ads. As I understand your comment, it skipped the first 30 sec of the video? Feel free to edit your comment with more clarifications or open a github issue if you would like your personal issue to be resolved. - Rated 5 out of 5by Patrick, 6 months ago(edited) thanks for the feedback, I just updated the version, should work fine now
Developer response
posted 6 months agoThanks for the feedback. The config to set the playback rate should be in the last version (1.66). I also just made the playback boosting after 2 seconds optional so it should hopefully reduce the Youtube detection rate if you keep that boosting disabled. - Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 18460206, 6 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Silver, 6 months agoIt works amazing from what I've seen and used so far; only issue is that it'll skip the entire youtube video to the end, but compared to how many youtube adblockers stopped working recently, it's not that hard to click replay. I also appreciate the frequent replies and changes the creator of the extension makes to maintain the extension.
Developer response
posted 6 months agoThanks for the nice words! Feel free to create a GitHub issue if you would like that issue to be investigated more deeply. - Rated 2 out of 5by Bestjustin, 7 months agoThis adblock is okay, but the reason it lost 2 stars because there is this annoying bug where when the video plays, it sometimes skips the video.
Developer response
posted 7 months agoThanks for the feedback. I pushed a fix yesterday in v1.59 that potentially solves this issue as well.