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submitted 6 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

Sponsorblock lets users mark YT video segments as sponsored, and will automatically skip those segments during playback.

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[-] [email protected] 5 points 6 days ago

This looks very interesting. I looked at the "add-ons" page for Firefox and noticed under permissions it said "Access your data for all websites". Why would it need to access all websites? Why not just when you access YouTube?

[-] [email protected] 4 points 6 days ago

It could be so that it works for embedded videos on other websites

[-] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

This add-on may also ask to: Access your data for all websites

Sponsor Block works on front ends like Invidious.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago

Might just be how the plugin API in Firefox works. I haven't looked, but maybe plugins don't specify that they access a specific site, just that they need site access.

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