Reviews for Youtube Ad Auto-skipper
Youtube Ad Auto-skipper by Shreya Dahal
Review by TigerNightmare
Rated 4 out of 5
by TigerNightmare, 4 years agoThis 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.
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.
Developer response
posted 4 years agoThank you for your review. I have been hearing this feedback and I have wanted to add those functionalities but it just has been a very busy time for me recently. I am planning to take some time and work on the extension to build these functionalities in the upcoming weeks. I hope you'll like the additions.