This is excellent. As anyone, I'm annoyed by ads, but I don't want to completely block them, in appreciation for the content creators. This plugin forces the ads to work the way YouTube should keep them, small 5 seconds ads that require no interaction.

LATEST REVIEW: It's back to working fine since the update from 11 June 2023.

Old Review: I used to enjoy this for what it is, so it brings me no pleasure to give this low rating as the extension has not been working for the past few days. This appears to be related to Youtube changing how their website works, but until any update to make this functional again I thought it'd be appropriate to warn others of my experience.

Old Update: It's only working in private windows but not public for unknown reasons.

It works :)

This thing is just great! That's all that really needs to be said besides maybe a Thank You! Just don't tell your favorite content creators that you use it, they'll hate ya for it! J/K.... YouTube doesn't pay any of the people that are worth watching anyway and that's like a fact or somethin'.

Great. I was getting really fed-up with having to press the "skip ad" button which appears to be getting on more and more videos recently.

This does what it promises to do, which is good. It's useful for long videos of musical performances where I just want to lie down and not have to stand up or wait for longer ads to end.

Unfortunately, contrary to what people think, autoskipping ads has the same effect as blocking all ads, depriving creators of their well-deserved revenue. According to what I read, ads 30 seconds or under need to play in their entirety, and longer ads need to play at least 30 seconds, with more money given out if more of the ad is watched.

I wish this had additional options, such as only autoskipping after 30 seconds, blacklisting ads with certain IDs or URLs (like PragerU, screw those guys) and entire channels we do not want to support but need to watch for whatever reason, popunder and autoclose banner ads, whatever we can do to balance ad revenue with ad watch time. I get that it might be a lot to ask for, but until there is a solution, I can't in good conscience take money away from people who work hard to provide entertainment and community.

Yes! So satisfying to see those ads end after their timeout without any action on my part!

Youtube is getting annoying day by day.
This extension is awesome.
It skips the ad automatically so I don't have to use my mouse every time.
It's very very useful.

would have preferred an addon with a little more nuance.

.) don't skip if shorter than n seconds/minutes
.) press 'skip ad' after n seconds/minutes

Great for supporting creators without dealing with the extreme annoyance of YouTube ads system.

Skips YouTube ad, fast and seamlessly upon "Skip Ad" button is allowed.