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.
123 reviews
- Rated 5 out of 5by NIHAL T P, 7 hours agoDoes exactly what it says, was looking for this. Thankyou for making this
- Rated 5 out of 5by Ori, 5 days ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 19476881, 19 days agoAs of 2025 September, it works absolutely fabulous. 100% recommended
- Rated 5 out of 5by iNeQaH, a month ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by yhsmt, a month ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by KOOTS, 2 months agoAllows me to keep supporting the creators I enjoy watching while making watching ads less painful
- Rated 5 out of 5by Pat I, 3 months ago"This is not an Ad blocker, you will still get ads on Youtube, but if an Ad is skip-able it will be skipped the moment Youtube provides the "Skip Ad" button."
I watched a ton of YouTube videos which were interrupted by ads every 2.5 minutes or so. This add-on turned every ad off as soon as the "Skip" button appeared. Worked exactly as advertised! Thank you! - Rated 5 out of 5by beanfan1, 4 months agoI've noticed that it blocks ads. It either skips the ad right when it begins playing, bypassing the skip button somehow, or it just blocks the ad (which it likely doesn't since youtube doesn't detect it as an adblocker) overall good though
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 19019458, 4 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Joker, 4 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Castwide, 5 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by vleeth, 8 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Pijatow, 10 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by cryptomike, a year ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 17308682, a year ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 18593807, a year agoIt is working now. Big thanks to the developer who have worked hard to keep this extension working.
I had to reinstall this extension because Firefox wouldn't update this extension automatically. - Rated 3 out of 5by indiana, a year agoSince 1 or 2 weeks it does not work anymore. Before it was smothly working. Hope functionality will come back back so the 5 stars come back :)
- Rated 1 out of 5by Spids, a year ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Manisha Mehta, a year ago