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iSponsorBlockTV v2: SponsorBlock for TVs and game consoles
- dmunozv04 3y agoIt skips sponsor segments using the SponsorBlock API and can also skip/mute YouTube ads. Devices don't need to be on the same lan to work
- BonoboIO 3y agoDo I need to setup anything on the TV or does this just work?
- dmunozv04 3y agoYou just need to run the tool on a server/computer and connect the TV to it
- netsharc 3y agoLooks like the compatible TVs have an interface (UPnP/DLNA?) that can presumably be queried to ask "What video is playing?", and "How far along are you in the video?", as well as accepting commands like "Skip to x:xx".
- xnx 3y agoI'm a YouTube (Red? Premium?) subscription so I don't see ads, but I'm very pleased to see SponsorBlock-like services spreading. Would love to see it for podcasts.
- nickthegreek 3y agoThis can block the in video ads you do see with YT Premium.
- phero_cnstrcts 3y agoWait what? Do you still see ads even if you pay?
- EthicalSimilar 3y agoThey are talking about sponsored content that the content creator records and shows in-video.
- echelon 3y agoI would pay creators to not see that bullshit. I don't care about NordVPN, Brilliant, SkillShare, or any other trash. I'm entirely less likely to use services that annoy me with their advertising.
- jamesdwilson 3y agoMaybe you are. but decades of research indicate that people will choose familiarity and annoyance over ignorance of a product.
- hutattedonmyarm 3y agoNot many creator's are on there, but this is the whole idea of Nebula: https://nebula.tv https://nebula.tv
- sofixa 3y agoI'd say there are a lot of creators, depending on the content type. As long as you're not looking for travel vloggers or unboxing/review videos or "lifestyle" vloggers there's plenty. Pretty much all science/history/urbanism/aviation YouTubers I follow are on Nebula as well. Issue is that the UX isn't great (e.g. there are no playlists nor queues, and downloads don't work as well as they do on YouTube).
- hutattedonmyarm 3y agoI agree, most of my YouTube creator's are there. I'm basically missing only Tom Scott, Kurzgesagt and Technology Connections. UX is pretty meh (although the "Nebula Enhancer" browser plugin at least fixes the missing queue), but that doesn't work in the app obviously
- hedora 3y agoOvercast (iOS) supposedly can block ads and skip intros/outros. I haven’t tried using those features though. It also blocks some audience-measuring redirects.
- xnyan 3y ago>Overcast (iOS) supposedly can block ads and skip intros/outros Overcast intro and outro skip is a thing (that I use for most podcasts), but I've never seen anything like an ad-skipping feature. I listen to the developer's podcast (Accidental Tech Podcast) and he mentioned that ad detection and skipping is something that he's looked into and considering, but as far as I know it's not an overcast feature today.
- yreg 3y agoHe could implement it for ATP at least :P
- xavdid 3y agoI mean, technically he has: https://atp.fm/join https://atp.fm/join
- yreg 3y agoPaying $100 a year for a freaking podcast seems ridiculous to me, especially when there is no special cause behind it and the hosts are already rich af. But of course they are free to charge whatever they want.
- skygazer 3y agoI have an overcast next chapter action triggered by a Siri shortcut called “skip ad” — so I can just say “Siri, Skip Ad”. It works only if the podcast pervasively chapterizes of course, but thankfully most of mine do.
- jrmg 3y agoI don’t think it can skip automatically. I’m an Overcast user, and haven’t heard of this - and can’t find the feature now that I look. It does have configurable “skip forward” and “skip backward” _times_, and will skip to and resume from between words instead of inside words - so it’s easier to manually skip than in some other apps - but I don’t think there’s anything automatic. [Edit: Oh! It can skip a configurable amount of time from the start and end of playback of any podcast! It’s still manual though.]
- dave_walko 3y agolove this, now to find a guide how to set it up on my synology
- loufe 3y agoThere's a docker image with some instructions on Wiki, shouldn't be too tricky to transfer over. If I end up making it work I'll do a PR for the project wiki for Synology install steps.
- dmunozv04 3y agoAFAIK some people have used it on synology successfully in the past. A PR including specific steps would be amazing though
- Larrikin 3y agoI spent about a month looking for detailed guides on how to add individual services to my Synology and just constantly being frustrated. Then I found an extremely detailed but very opinionated guide on how to setup a suite of apps with docker compose and ssh because the author's were very much against the GUI and built in apps. It's been a much smoother and easier experience installing services since I no longer need to seek out half baked guides on someone who got it working good enough for them on their NAS.
- bouvin 3y agoLink?
- dontlaugh 3y agoThe Docker instructions work well, I set it up on my Unraid server.
- peoplearepeople 3y agoWhat mechanism does it use to block the ads?
- sprremix 3y agoIt blocks sponsored content using SponsorBlock[0], which uses crowdsourced data to detect segments in video's and skips them (basically fast forwards over the content). [0] https://sponsor.ajay.app/ https://sponsor.ajay.app/
- jabroni_salad 3y agoI had a peek and it looks like it's the youtube lounge API. Basically this is casting with some bonus features. If you are playing on a Screen (a tv or console) then Remotes (usually your phone) can automatically notice it and automatically show what is playing, let you use controls, add stuff to the playlist etc. This program registers a remote and automatically skips forward when a sponsorblock segment is present.
- tpmx 3y agoYoutube recently emailed me to say that they are cancelling the Youtube Premium Lite plan (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37649777 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37649777) that I've been on for 3 years. This looks interesting.
- precommunicator 3y agoThis is to skip in-video sponsorships/ads (based on community tagging them as such), not YouTube ads.
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- dmunozv04 3y agoIt actually works for both. It will skip/mute YouTube ads. Only ads that have the ‘skip’ button will be skipped
- munk-a 3y agoYea, they recently doubled the price of their ad-free version so back we go to ublock and sponsor block.
- sergiotapia 3y agoSponsorblock is one of the best things I have ever used in the last 5 years. "You've saved people from 1,927 segments ( 16h 56.3 minutes of their lives ) You've skipped 5,500 segments ( 1d 9h 19.3 minutes )" Absolutely ridiculous how much filler youtube is filled with to hit the 10 minute marks! I hope they never go down, it's a great free service. On mobile phones we use vanced, on my nvidia shields we use smarttubenext. Both integrate with sponsorblock automatically.
- bisby 3y agoYou prompted me to go through the FreeTube settings. SponsorBlock is just right there. I didn't even think to look for it. Amazing! Thanks. I wonder how many of the open source clients have it built in.
- ct0 3y agoshields smarttube beta is one of the best things ever https://github.com/yuliskov/SmartTubeNext https://github.com/yuliskov/SmartTubeNext
- sergiotapia 3y agoIt's so good I sold my rokus and bought two shields just to use that software.
- briHass 3y agoWorth noting that this works on any Android/Google TV box and Fire sticks, not just the Shield. I highly recommend the newest Walmart 4K ONN streaming box (official Google TV), which is an absolute steal at <$20.
- nickthegreek 3y agoI didn’t know about this, just installed and it works amazing. I have premium but I hate the sponsor segments in the videos. If Google breaks this app, I’ll try out the iSponsorBlockTV but this is a better fit for my situation now.
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- loufe 3y agoDoes this impede connecting to the TV/console with another device simultaneously?
- dmunozv04 3y agoI just tested it and it works just fine. YouTube seems to support multiple “mobile” devices connected to a single TV/console
- mkmk 3y agoNow if only you could do the same thing for other streaming apps. I’ve tried some dns blocking but it tends to just mess things up.
- munk-a 3y agoSponsor block doesn't actually block anything - it just instantly fast-forwards over embedded advertisements and intros/outros.
- hedora 3y agoDoes youtube pass information about which parts of videos are skipped back to the people that uploaded them? (Wondering if this directly affects sponsorship revenue.)
- dmunozv04 3y agoYouTube recently started showing a graph highlighting what sections of the video are watched more (when seeking with the cursor), so I assume they actually give creators proper metrics about this, and it could hurt revenue if sponsors ask to know the difference in watch time between their segment and the rest of the video
- munk-a 3y agoYea - if you're manually skipping sponsored segments this is actually hilariously useful since when seeking through the video there will be a big spike at the end of every sponsored segment from all the sponsor block users.
- jrmg 3y agoFor some reason I feel a lot worse about the idea of automatically skipping sponsor sections of YouTube videos than I do about blocking web ads.
- callalex 3y agoYea, they aren’t stalking you everywhere you go, and they don’t install malware on your device.
- danShumway 3y agoNote that you can configure Sponsorblock not to skip sponsored segments but to still skip intros/outros and subscription/interaction reminders. Adblocking is definitely the thing it's advertised on, but sponsored segments are only one labeled category. For longer lets-plays it's great to have the equivalent of Netflix's "skip the intro/credits" option. It is an adblocking extension first and foremost, but I still kind of recommend checking it out even if you don't plan to block ads with it because you might still find the other categories useful.
- munk-a 3y agoI don't - the creator already got paid... and if it devalues ads to the point of sponsors no longer trying to inject marketing into videos and creators relying on patreon/similar I think we'd be in a better world.
- chii 3y ago> creators relying on patreon/similar I think we'd be in a better world. so do you sign on to any patreons for any of the creators you watched?
- munk-a 3y agoI do, I'm currently subscribed to three youtubers' patreon. I'm not subscribed to any large creators but rather to a few really niche ones.
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- danShumway 3y agoSponsorblock has been a Godsend for me; it's something you don't really think about but adds up. The sponsored segments are not even really the biggest advantage, it also skips intros and outros and interaction reminders, which are huge. I am convinced that being really aggressive about blocking advertisements helps with my ADHD and helps me focus better. I don't have science to back that up, just my anecdotal self-reported experience -- but I see improvements every time I get a little bit more purposeful about blocking ads (and not just ads but intros, boot screens, social reminders, suggested articles, etc -- basically interruptions). And when I see ads now that I'm no longer desensitized to them, they stick out so much and they're so hard to ignore. Our brains are good at filtering things out, but I do wonder if there's a focus cost in addition to a time cost. My mood improves when my house is clean and organized; my mood also improves when my media consumption is organized and de-cluttered.
- ornornor 3y ago> interaction reminders I’ve been wondering about these… do people really need to be reminded to “subscribe like comment down below” in every single video? Don’t people know the creator wants you to do it and only do it if they feel like anyway? What’s the point of everyone saying it in every single video? It’s just aggravating to me, but I wonder why they keep saying it?
- Already__Taken 3y agoyeh they do. All the analytics show up right when it's mentioned people do it.
- nextlevelwizard 3y agoWhen you see stats like this it is hard to not just go full doomer and think most people are sheep
- johnny22 3y agoor they just forgot about it , like i usually do. I still never remember to "like" videos because i didn' grow up on social media.
- someotherperson 3y agoWould love to see some ultralight version of this that I can just run directly on my router.
- Ayesh 3y agoUnfortunately I don't think it's possible. The router can only intercept as far as DNS goes, and DNS Blocklists are already incapable of blocking YouTube ads.
- someotherperson 3y agoRouters run operating systems like everything else does though. What would make my OpenWRT router running this any different from another device on the network?
- oefnak 3y agoEncryption
- _Algernon_ 3y agoIt only has access to the encrypted payload, while the client has access to the decrypted payload.
- figmert 3y agoThe service doesn't deal with encrypted payloads. It just integrates with YouTube's lounge api. As long as a machine is able to run this and is connected to the internet, that should be enough.
- moogly 3y agoYou can run Docker on Mikrotik's RouterOS[1]. I doubt performance is anywhere close to great though, but it'd be interesting to try. [1]: https://help.mikrotik.com/docs/display/ROS/Container https://help.mikrotik.com/docs/display/ROS/Container
- ajsnigrutin 3y agoOn the other hand, youtube is trying hard to stop adblock use in general on browsers.. down to the level of having to update ublock lists hourly, get popup mssages, and playlists stopping playback after three videos. https://old.reddit.com/r/uBlockOrigin/comments/173jmog/youtube_antiadblock_and_ads_october_09_2023/ https://old.reddit.com/r/uBlockOrigin/comments/173jmog/youtu...
- pests 3y agoAfter disabling my adblock for YT I noticed the video player has gotten much worse. I always saw preroll ads still but now all of them are completely jarring. My previous player seemed to play them inline whereas now they load separately, jump abruptly, much more annoying.
- dylan604 3y agoi can almost nod my head in acceptance for a :30 ad before a new piece of content. at :45, i'm starting to get annoyed. at :60, i'm wondering if this is really worth it. then, youtube steps up to the plate, points to the fences, and serves up a 2minute30second (i've seen longer) short film on some clearly fake as fuck scam type of 4am paid programming type of crap. on top of serving some mind bendingly annoying long ad break, they don't even attempt to prevent serving clearly malicious ads. if you're going to be heartless and force ads, don't be soulless and at least vet the ads from obvious scams.
- Already__Taken 3y agoI left a playlist on while working, so an anonymous account. A full on hour self-help seminar was playing as an ad. if you don't skip the ads you get to some weird places.
- pests 3y agoIts weird too because the ad-player doesn't like you scrub the timeline or go forward-back. So even if it was an interesting ad you can't go back or interact at all. Its so similar to a late-night infomercial and unlike a YT video its uncanny.
- Moldoteck 3y agoThis is a godsend for my yt premium subscription. Now I can really enjoy watching yt on my tv without watching ads since I pay anyway, will test this weekend. Big thanks to developers!
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- jimaek 3y agoJust installed and it works amazingly well. I have YT premium and now this removed all the annoying integrated ads as well.
- dmunozv04 3y agoThat’s great to hear
- Bad_CRC 3y agoI use https://github.com/gabe565/CastSponsorSkip https://github.com/gabe565/CastSponsorSkip that is the same and its great, it also mutes the ads while waiting to be skipped.
- Larrikin 3y agoIts unclear from the readme, but does this block ads on devices that support casting or only block ads when you are casting? Will it interfere if I have sponsorblock already running on my Android TV? Also why does this program need to be completely rewritten so many times to eliminate performance issues with the previous version?
- whatsthatabout 3y agoWow this works great! Just took 5 minutes to set up. Is now up and running on my docker vm so it‘s always working.
- nihonium 3y agoI don't understand how can people trust a random app or extension just to have a little convinience. When it comes to big tech people are very privacy conscious. But it's not always big tech may have privacy leaks or would sell your data directly to data brokers most of the time, it's small apps like this. I'm not saying developer is doing that, but they have power to do so. This app sends every video you're watching to their api, https://sponsor.ajay.app/api/ https://sponsor.ajay.app/api/ , and they can do whatever they want with this data. When small apps like this becames popular, they start receiving offers from data brokers/malware business and sometimes developers sell the data or the whole app without even knowing that the data will be used for bad purposes.
- dc3k 3y ago> But it's not always big tech may have privacy leaks or would sell your data directly to data brokers most of the time, it's small apps like this. Do you have any data to back this up
- nihonium 3y agoIf you're following HN regularly, I'm sure you'd see many issues especially for sold Chrome extensions. Really need data? Maybe check these: [1]https://static.googleusercontent.com/media/research.google.com/en//pubs/archive/43346.pdf https://static.googleusercontent.com/media/research.google.c... [2]https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2019/07/dataspii-inside-the-debacle-that-dished-private-data-from-apple-tesla-blue-origin-and-4m-people/ https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2019/07/datas... [3]https://dataspii.com/ https://dataspii.com/
- WhiteOwlLion 3y agoseems like a good project to integration with ChatGPT video and figure out ways to automatically insert start & end times for sponsors, interaction reminders, intro, outro, etc. With a little training, this could be fully automated accurately.
- DavideNL 3y ago> "Basically this is casting with some bonus features. If you are playing on a Screen (a tv or console) then Remotes (usually your phone) can automatically notice it and automatically show what is playing, let you use controls, add stuff to the playlist etc. This program registers a remote and automatically skips forward when a sponsorblock segment is present. " Thank you for the explanation @jabroni_salad : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37873749#37876128 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37873749#37876128
- bazmattaz 3y agoHey dmunozv04, would this work on a old Raspberry Pi 3? I'm getting the following error and I'm thinking it might not be supported; > docker: no matching manifest for linux/arm/v6 in the manifest list entries. Would it work on a raspberry 4 maybe or even a raspberry 5? If not any of the above, is there a low power mini-pc type option that you recommend? Thanks
- ksala_ 3y agoNot dmunozv04 - you need to install the 64bit version of Raspberry Pi OS (unfortunately not the default) as the project does not provide ArmV6 images with Docker. Or build your docker image/run it outside of docker.
- bazmattaz 3y agoOk thanks. I have the OG pi which is only 32bit. I’ll try to pickup a Pi3 from eBay and test with that
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