YouTubeSkip

http://www.youtubeskip.com/

by talhof8 • 13 years ago

29 47 13 years ago

youtubeskip.com

Saw this on Quora and thought it's worth sharing.

techaddict009• 13 years ago

Isn't it against the TOS of youtube ?

JackpotDen• 13 years ago

Isn't what google does against human rights?

https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Universal_Declaration_of_Huma...

talhof83• 13 years ago

Saw this on Quora and thought it's worth sharing. I've no idea who's behind it.

DanBC3• 13 years ago

If you cannot let the ads run you shouldn't watch the video.

I understand that people hate ads, and that having a method to pay for content would be better than ads, but we don't have that micropayment yet, so we're stuck with ads at the moment.

If you hate ads you should refuse to use any site that displays ads, rather than use the site but block the ads.

If any YouTubers are reading: It'd be great if there was someway to provide feedback on ads. Yes, I realise this would be hell for anyone reading the feedback. But when I go to watch a ten minute video and there's a 4 minute ad, or there's an unskippable 30 second ad that has no interest for me, or there's no way to opt out of future ads from a company that has no interest to me ("Please stop showing me ads from Jakamo").

mattvot• 13 years ago

There's a new service looking to do something similar to payments on videos.

Like a pay-as-much-as-you-like subscription https://subbable.com/

talhof83• 13 years ago

I agree and I bet this website will be shut down soon. YouTube has to make revenue and personally I have no problem "suffering" those ads as long as they're short.

lotsofcows2• 13 years ago

Oh I must have missed that in those T&Cs I signed when I visited their publicly available website...

DanBC3• 13 years ago

It's nothing to do with T&Cs, it's to do with not being a leeching asshole.

Pay for the content you want. Don't pay for the content you don't want. Don't take without paying the content you do want.

icebraining2• 13 years ago

If we all refused to watch ads, they'd have to find alternative solutions; we might already have micropayments by now if it weren't for the people who watch ads.

DanBC3• 13 years ago

You might have a point if you'd said you refused to watch the content and told them it was because of ads.

Jach• 13 years ago

Enough people apparently already refuse to watch ads that it would be against Youtube's interest to block people who block the ads. Other sites notice a lot of people block ads too, and put up banners begging for a whitelist. (Does that constitute a type of click fraud when you ask adblock users to enable ads [and click them]?)

Here are some interesting percentages: http://www.quora.com/What-is-the-percentage-of-Internet-user... I think with these numbers websites like Youtube suspect that if they piss off those of us who block their ads (by blocking our access or degrading the experience in other ways), we'll migrate to a competitor, and the masses will follow.

AlisdairO• 13 years ago

One idea I had that is on my list of things I'll probably never get around to doing is an ad blocker that pays the ad companies for adverts you don't see on a page.

The thought behind this is that the ad companies already handle micropayments to websites, and there's only a few ad companies - 'all' you need to do is set up an arrangement with them where you take fees from users and distribute to the companies when their ads are blocked (as detected by the tracker). Website owner still gets paid, and ad provider effectively gets paid for being your microtransaction provider. You only have to set up relationships with a few companies, rather than practically every website in the world.

For people like myself who would like to block ads but feel ethically bound not to, this would be a great way around the inflexibility of current models, where I subscribe to a single website or whatever.

As I said, I'll probably never get round to it, but if someone feels like it they're welcome to use the idea.

spyder• 13 years ago

The ads beside the videos would be OK for me but the pre-roll ads are annoying especially when they change the behavior of the player: I'm used to click on the player to pause the video, but when it's playing an ad then the click opens a webpage instead of pausing the video and sometimes it even freezes Firefox for several seconds. This is what reminds me to turn on AdBlock.

spindritf• 13 years ago

Doesn't AdBlock already handle YouTube? I haven't seen an ad before video in quite a while.

himal• 13 years ago

Yes, It does.

sdfjkl3• 13 years ago

I haven't either and was wondering if it was that or Glimmerblocker. If I did see video ads, I'd rather just close the tab than suffer through them.

That is by the way in everyone's best interest, especially the advertisers. Making me watch some ad will only make me dislike your brand.

netrus• 13 years ago

Well, as you apparently continue to use Youtube, it's not in their best interest.

noinput• 13 years ago

So we're supposed to use this site to skip YouTube ads, and in exchange we're presented with the website's ads. Right.

talhof83• 13 years ago

that's a good point

gurumeditation• 13 years ago

Least you get your video faster, YouTubes advertising is much more invasive and irritating

CaveTech2• 13 years ago

In how many other places can you pick and choose the terms of your agreement like we constantly do with online services? It's not really up to us to say, "well your ads are annoying! I still need your service though."

Jugurtha• 13 years ago

Aside from the argument of whether or not to block ads, there are extensions to that, why build a website?

Can this website take a load as big as Youtube's ? I doubt so.

andrewbaron• 13 years ago

Seems like this kind of scenario is inevitable. There are also browser extensions for skipping, like Magic Actions for YouTube.

Advertising values are constantly being devalued. It would be nice if there was a way to move beyond advertising on the web as the primary business model. Wikipedia is the only top 10 site on the net that does not rely on advertising.

sumit_psp• 13 years ago

I see people are asking why build a website. Maybe they want to build a userbase and expand to other skips too(such as hulu skip).

iMark• 13 years ago

Surely YouTube's lawyer-sense must be tingling.

talles• 13 years ago

I'm not against ads in a general way, but forcing me to see an advertisement before letting me access the content, oh that pisses me off.

Looks like a great service, easier to remember and apply it (just typing 'skip' on the url, awesome).

I used to use the URL http://youtube.com/v/[video id]. Dunno if still works, but it didn't displayed those 5 second ads plus would still play a video that requires login even if you are not.

petercooper• 13 years ago

See, my first thought on seeing this URL was that it'd be a site that skipped to the most interesting part of a video first. So many videos on YouTube have comments like "to get to the good part/skip the waffling, go to 00:47" or whatever ;-)

eli• 13 years ago

http://youtubetime.com/

RobotCaleb• 13 years ago

It's known as the Wadsworth Constant. Based on some dude named Wadsworth on reddit[0].

Apparently pressing 3 with the youtube player selected will jump to 30%.

[0] http://i.imgur.com/yxfpC.png

CaveTech2• 13 years ago

Better yet, add &wadsworth=1 to the query string of any youtube URL :)

duncans• 13 years ago

Kind of surprised there wasn't a bookmarklet. Here you go:

    javascript:if(/youtube\.com\/watch\?v=([^&]+)/.test(location)){location='http://www.youtubeskip.com/watch?v='+RegExp.$1;}

tehwebguy• 13 years ago

I didn't realize you could use RegExp.$1 ( .. $n) until just now. Thanks!

nticompass2• 13 years ago

You can, but it's highly suggested you don't. First off, it's a deprecated property. Second, RegExp.$1 is the 1st match of the last RegExp ran. No matter where in your page it was ran. Extensions, events, functions, wherever. In this case, it should be safe, but don't ever actually use it on your page.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe...

gingerjoos• 13 years ago

ViewTube[1] is a greasemonkey script which allows you to play the HTML5 versions of youtube videos. So this lets you skip ads too

[1] http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/87011

nticompass2• 13 years ago

YouTube has ads? I use AdBlock (not AdBlock plus) and I don't see ads before YouTube videos.

Also, when I have seen ads, they are like 15 seconds long, or if they are longer, you're given a "skip" button. Are you seriously that impatient that you can't wait 10 seconds?

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