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SponsorBlock – skip sponsor segments on YouTube

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661 points anotherhue | 3 comments | 12 Aug 24 09:10 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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fngjdflmdflg ◴[13 Aug 24 21:29 UTC] No.41240061[source]▶
One issue with SponsorBlock is that people use skip to highlight[0] on music, which should be illegal. To me there often is no highlight for music. You need to hear the first part of the piece in order to enjoy the second. And people have different views on what counts as the highlight. I don't even like seeing the skip to highlight color on the scrub bar in videos that are just music. Skip non music[1] is good though.

[0] https://wiki.sponsor.ajay.app/w/Highlight

[1] https://wiki.sponsor.ajay.app/w/Music:_Non-Music_Section

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1. Joe_Cool ◴[13 Aug 24 21:36 UTC] No.41240110[source]▶
You can just turn that off in the options including the marker on the seek bar.

Also when it is bad don't hesitate to downvote. The database is only that good because of user feedback (and some anti-botting measures). You can check hidden segments and votes here: https://sb.ltn.fi/

And messing about with the API is made easy here: https://mruy.github.io/sponsorBlockControl-sveltekit/

You can find this and many more things on the wiki you already linked.

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2. fngjdflmdflg ◴[13 Aug 24 21:39 UTC] No.41240131[source]▶
I think that turns off the skip to highlight everywhere, right? I still want to see skip to highlight in non music videos. Also, looking at the use cases on the wiki for highlight, musics should not be allowed

> Skipping to the point/most important part of the video Skipping to the part of the video referred to by the title Skipping to the part of the video referred to by the thumbnail Skipping to the part of the video referenced from a preview/teaser at the start of the video

There is no "most important part" of a piece of music. And the last three don't apply at all.

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3. Joe_Cool ◴[13 Aug 24 22:15 UTC] No.41240401[source]▶
That is planned per channel but not a priority at the moment: https://github.com/ajayyy/SponsorBlock/issues/435