• @[email protected]
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    42 months ago

    Does it mark the sponsors for skipping, or completely not download the sponsor sections? Once in a while I’ll actually watch those ad spots from a few creators

    • @[email protected]
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      32 months ago

      It’s crowdsourced. Viewers tag sections as sponsor segments and the extension skips those sections.

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        52 months ago

        Yeah I know what it is, and how it works online, but when it’s used with YouTube-dlp does it actually download the whole video and mark the skips, or does it skip downloading those parts entirely?

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          2 months ago

          yt-dlp edits the video once its downloaded on your device. So when the sponsor mention comes up, it just cuts to the next piece of content that comes after the sponsor mention. It does download the entire video, but then it uses ffmpeg (I think) to edit the sponsor mentions out.