What's new in SponsorBlock for YouTube (Chrome) 5.5.9
Mar 19, 2024
- Add option to store downvotes when done in private tabs
- Fix chapters not changing when skipping is disabled
- Stop refresh animation on popup when opened on a non YouTube page (thanks @HanYaodong )
New in SponsorBlock for YouTube (Chrome) 5.5.8 (Mar 7, 2024)
- Fix importing options in options page not working
- Stop refresh animation on popup when not on youtube page (thanks @HanYaodong )
New in SponsorBlock for YouTube (Chrome) 5.5.7 (Feb 28, 2024)
- Improve layout on new YouTube layout with the description on the right
New in SponsorBlock for YouTube (Chrome) 5.5.6 (Feb 24, 2024)
- Fix issue causing extension to break when running with latest version of BlockTube (version 0.4.1)
- Don't require preview for starting segments
New in SponsorBlock for YouTube (Chrome) 5.5.5 (Feb 14, 2024)
- Fix chapter names not appearing
- Fix adding custom Invidious instances on Firefox
- Fix issues with voting in popup showing loading forever
- Fix hidden mute segments sometimes still muting
- Don't close submission menu if submission didn't go through
- Improve scrubbing on mobile YouTube by not displaying preview bar during scrubbing
New in SponsorBlock for YouTube (Chrome) 5.5.4 (Jan 31, 2024)
- Fix preview bar end time sometimes being inaccurate
- Fix compatibility with Vinegar on Safari
New in SponsorBlock for YouTube (Chrome) 5.5.3 (Jan 23, 2024)
- Improve precision on category names on hover of seek bar
- Also fixes issue with YouTube "most-replayed" messing it up
- Change requirements on new "preview segment before submitting" requirement to be less aggressive
New in SponsorBlock for YouTube (Chrome) 5.5.2 (Jan 22, 2024)
- Fix category selection changes not saving
New in SponsorBlock for YouTube (Chrome) 5.5.1 (Jan 22, 2024)
- Only require a previewing segments for skip and mute segments
- Prevent zooming when trying to scroll to edit times
- Only prevent scrolling while editing
- Don't warn about using the word intro in chapter names
New in SponsorBlock for YouTube (Chrome) 5.5 (Jan 21, 2024)
- Allow dragging around notices
- Add keybinds for submitting, previewing segments and closing skip notices
- Make unskipping for multi-segment skip notice easier
- Add timestamp to multi segment vote box
- Remove unsubmitted segment storage limit by moving it to the local storage
- Fix preview bar on mobile
- Require previewing before submitting
- Add compatibility with Vinegar extension on Safari
- Add retry logic to popup info
- Fix scrolling fast on edit time not saving properly and similar saving issues
- Fix full video segments ending up in skip notices
- Improve error messages
- Change how chapter views are counted
New in SponsorBlock for YouTube (Chrome) 5.5 Beta (Jan 16, 2024)
- Allow dragging around notices
- Add keybinds for submitting, previewing segments and closing skip notices
- Make unskipping for multi-segment skip notice easier
- Add timestamp to multi segment vote box
- Remove unsubmitted segment storage limit by moving it to the local storage
- Fix preview bar on mobile
- Require previewing before submitting
- Add compatibility with Vinegar extension on Safari
- Add retry logic to popup info
- Fix scrolling fast on edit time not saving properly and similar saving issues
- Fix full video segments ending up in skip notices
- Improve error messages
- Change how chapter views are counted
New in SponsorBlock for YouTube (Chrome) 5.4.29 (Nov 29, 2023)
- Reuploading to fix Firefox for Android minimum version number and make it appear on the store
- Exactly the same as 5.4.29 but with the version code changed
New in SponsorBlock for YouTube (Chrome) 5.4.28 (Nov 27, 2023)
- Add support for userstyles in the popup. The popup was moved to an iframe recently, which broke some userstyles such as DeepDark. It will now copy user-styles from the main page into the popup to remain consistent
- Fix extension when sync storage disabled and add warning that settings won't be saved. Issue occurred on Tor browser and Mullvad browser
- Add never show button to DeArrow prompt
New in SponsorBlock for YouTube (Chrome) 5.4.27 (Nov 9, 2023)
- Rename "Preview/Recap" category to "Preview/Recap/Hook"
- Add option to make the popup less cluttered (no logo or stats)
- Ignore quotes when deduplicating SponsorBlock chapters with imported YouTube chapters
- Make submission and skip notices slightly larger to fix it sometimes having layout issues
- Fix error when submitting and having required segments in URL
- Add DeArrow link on help page and tweak when promotion appears
New in SponsorBlock for YouTube (Chrome) 5.4.26 (Nov 2, 2023)
- Another fix for flashing on Firefox when skipping some segments at the end of the video
- Make highlight bigger on timeline when skip to highlight button hovered
- Scroll to bottom when new segment added in submission notice
- Rate limit saving times to make scrolling the edit box less laggy
New in SponsorBlock for YouTube (Chrome) 5.4.25 (Oct 23, 2023)
- Potential fix for skipping segments at the end of videos causing odd behavior on Firefox
- Added years to time saved display (thanks @Choromanski )
- Add minimum version of Firefox to manifest
New in SponsorBlock for YouTube (Chrome) 5.4.24 (Oct 15, 2023)
- Fix vote buttons in full video labels not being aligned
- Fix videoID not properly changing when using sites such as Cytube or Watchtogether
New in SponsorBlock for YouTube (Chrome) 5.4.23 (Oct 9, 2023)
- Fix navigation bar on Piped being hidden
New in SponsorBlock for YouTube (Chrome) 5.4.22 (Oct 1, 2023)
- Add separate keybind for skip to highlight
- Fix tip from moderator UI not working when submitting
- Don't show start button when editing highlight
New in SponsorBlock for YouTube (Chrome) 5.4.21 (Sep 24, 2023)
- Fix YouTube "TV UI" on Firefox
- Fix tips from moderators not opening chat box
New in SponsorBlock for YouTube (Chrome) 5.4.20 (Sep 17, 2023)
- Actually stop spacebar in chapters box from pausing video
- Add extension icon default location on Firefox
- Highlight segments on hover
New in SponsorBlock for YouTube (Chrome) 5.4.18 (Aug 26, 2023)
- Fix Invidious support on Safari for macOS and Safari for iOS
New in SponsorBlock for YouTube (Chrome) 5.4.16 (Aug 23, 2023)
- Fix skipping when playback speed is changed
- Add compatibility with video speed controller
- Use non persistent background page on Firefox for better performance
- Fix extension icon on Firefox for Android
New in SponsorBlock for YouTube (Chrome) 5.4.15 (Aug 10, 2023)
- Attempting to fix it not skipping segments for the first time after opening links in new tabs
New in SponsorBlock for YouTube (Chrome) 5.4.14 (Aug 2, 2023)
- Fix reproducible builds for Firefox
New in SponsorBlock for YouTube (Chrome) 5.4.12 (Jul 20, 2023)
- Better check for warning about zoom to fill being installed
New in SponsorBlock for YouTube (Chrome) 5.4.11 (Jul 15, 2023)
- Performance improvements
- Improve full video category pills on mobile
- Make sure tooltip gets closed after downvoting full video category
- Make full video category pill not take full height of title container
- Fix non https and IP accessed custom invidious instance support
- Support yt kids (thanks @mchangrh )
- Warn people using incompatible "Zoom to fill" extension
New in SponsorBlock for YouTube (Chrome) 5.4.10 (Jun 22, 2023)
- Don't show info about DeArrow for people who just installed
New in SponsorBlock for YouTube (Chrome) 5.4.9 (Jun 22, 2023)
- Changes this version:
- Add warning when enabling filler
- Fix some mutation listener performance problems
- Improve some garbage collection handling with html elements
- Border radius on popup (thanks @rakleed )
- Add links to DeArrow
New in SponsorBlock for YouTube (Chrome) 5.4.6 (May 8, 2023)
- Changes this version:
- Show time with skips removed on invidious (thanks @mini-bomba )
- Fix skip looping issue
- Support new YouTube layout
- Add translation support to time left in popup (thanks @Blueberryy and @mini-bomba )
- Add config sync with upcoming Clickbait extension
New in SponsorBlock for YouTube (Chrome) 5.4.5 (May 1, 2023)
- Fix submission menu in theater mode and fullscreen
New in SponsorBlock for YouTube (Chrome) 5.4.2 (Apr 27, 2023)
- Fix video labels showing all categories regardless of settings
- Fix looped videos sometimes not skipping start segment
- Fix wrapping issue on safari
- Improve compatibility with companion extensions
- Spelling fix (thanks @biot )
New in SponsorBlock for YouTube (Chrome) 5.4.1 (Apr 18, 2023)
- Fixed bugs with dark reader and other color issues (thanks @mini-bomba )
- Fix potentially leaking set interval
New in SponsorBlock for YouTube (Chrome) 5.4.0 Beta (Mar 18, 2023)
- Show Full Video Labels on thumbnails (thanks @mini-bomba )
New in SponsorBlock for YouTube (Chrome) 5.3.0 (Mar 14, 2023)
- More precise skipping on Firefox
- Fix category pill disappearing on mobile
- Fix Finnish timestamp issues
- Fix skipping behavior with auto skip on music videos
- Update channel id regex:
- Also use more data from video events (thanks @mchangrh )
- Fix unhiding one segment unhiding all
- Fix chapter imports when not in focus
- Reorganize lots of code
New in SponsorBlock for YouTube (Chrome) 5.3.0 Beta (Mar 8, 2023)
- Changes this version:
- More precise skipping on Firefox
- Fix category pill disappearing on mobile
- Fix Finnish timestamp issues
- Fix skipping behavior with auto skip on music videos
- Update channel id regex
- Also use more data from video events (thanks @mchangrh )
- Fix unhiding one segment unhiding all
- Fix chapter imports when not in focus
- Reorganize lots of code
New in SponsorBlock for YouTube (Chrome) 5.2.1 (Feb 24, 2023)
- Changes this version:
- Fix Safari resetting custom Invidious domains
- Force Invidious domains lower case
- Don't remove unused invidious domains when support invidious is disabled
New in SponsorBlock for YouTube (Chrome) 5.2.0 (Feb 8, 2023)
- Changes this version:
- New Invidious and 3rd-party support method that supports dynamic pages on Safari and incognito windows on Chromium
New in SponsorBlock for YouTube (Chrome) 5.2.0 Pre-release (Feb 7, 2023)
- New Invidious and 3rd-party support method that supports dynamic pages on Safari and incognito windows on Chromium
New in SponsorBlock for YouTube (Chrome) 5.1.14 (Feb 2, 2023)
- Add invidious instances by default for Safari
New in SponsorBlock for YouTube (Chrome) 5.1.13 (Jan 31, 2023)
- Fix chevron hiding sometimes
- Store fonts locally
- Fixed CSS on invidious (thanks @mchangrh )
- Fix chapter importing breaking with no SponsorBlock segments
- Fix Firefox popup icon
New in SponsorBlock for YouTube (Chrome) 5.1.10 (Dec 20, 2022)
- Fix importing chapters with trailing end bracket
- Make warning message nicer
New in SponsorBlock for YouTube (Chrome) 5.1.9 Beta (Dec 12, 2022)
- Add new workaround for improving skipping precision on Firefox
- Fix performance issues with large number of chapters and in other cases
- Fix whitelist sometimes not working
- Fix chapters text alignment
- Don't include mutes in time without skis (thanks @caneleex )
- Add option to disable scrolling to edit (thanks @caneleex )
- Allow full videos labels on livestreams (thanks @mchangrh )
New in SponsorBlock for YouTube (Chrome) 5.1.8 (Nov 24, 2022)
- Remove retry fetch if not found until we find a better solution that doesn't waste so much bandwidth
- Fix some race conditions leading to unnecessary segment fetches
New in SponsorBlock for YouTube (Chrome) 5.1.7 (Nov 23, 2022)
- Fix issues with mutes ending when highlights start
- Fix category pill text on new YouTube layout
- Better key moments check
New in SponsorBlock for YouTube (Chrome) 5.1.6 (Nov 6, 2022)
- Fix endcards sometimes overwriting end time to end of video
New in SponsorBlock for YouTube (Chrome) 5.1.5 (Nov 5, 2022)
- Fix segments really close to eachother not skipping
- More safety in preview bar and skip to highlight
- Fix layout issue with "precise seeking notice"
- Don't update the whole segment list on time update (thanks @mini-bomba )
- Use public ID for more calls when possible (thanks @mini-bomba )
- Add YT Music progress bar selector (thanks @mchangrh )
New in SponsorBlock for YouTube (Chrome) 5.1.4 (Oct 31, 2022)
- Fix scrubbing bar missing when chapter bar using % widths
- Add configuration for segment failed to fetch warning
- Fix key moments check not working when multiple videos present
New in SponsorBlock for YouTube (Chrome) 5.1.3 (Oct 30, 2022)
- Fix segment failed to fetch warning appearing for 404
New in SponsorBlock for YouTube (Chrome) 5.1.2 (Oct 28, 2022)
- Add error when trying to submit while server is failing
- Improved segment still loading error message
- Disable virtual time in Firefox again
- Show import segments button even when segments aren't fetched
- Import chapters as chooseACategory if chapters is disabled
- Open submission menu after importing
- Support importing short category names
New in SponsorBlock for YouTube (Chrome) 5.1.1 (Oct 17, 2022)
- Fix progress bar with 0px chapters
- Add back virtual time to firefox and fix it with playback speed
- Add flag to disable virtual time
New in SponsorBlock for YouTube (Chrome) 5.1.0 Pre-release (Oct 12, 2022)
- Make sure chapters are invalid if regex fails
- Run chapters clear when preview bar cleared
- Count skips for chapters when viewed
- Clear vote buttons when clearing preview bar
- Fix zero start time breaking imports
- Fix chapter icon with ytp big mode
- Reimport chapters if they are found to have changed
- update buttons when single time segment is edited
- Set endtime by default for outro
- Remove the unsubmittedSegments entry when removing the last segment
- don't append skip button for full video labels
- Update popup on segment updates
- React 18
- Add class for other extensions when displaying non chapter title
- Enable chapters if not enabled after redeem successful
- Fix key moments importing as chapters
New in SponsorBlock for YouTube (Chrome) 5.0.7 (Oct 5, 2022)
- Fix embeds
- Fix buttons on YouTube clips
- Fix spamming requests sometimes
New in SponsorBlock for YouTube (Chrome) 5.0.6 (Oct 1, 2022)
- Fix import button missing when no segments
- Swap back inspect and preview
- Fix lock color (thanks @mchangrh )
New in SponsorBlock for YouTube (Chrome) 5.0.5 (Sep 25, 2022)
- Default to chapters tab if no normal segments
- Tidy/simplify popup
- Fix custom chapter bar sometimes sticking around
- Fix chapter suggestions disappearing on click
- Swap preview and inspect
- Add option to disable segment names beside timestamp in video player
- Add tooltip to skip segment button
- Fix popup voting buttons disappearing
- Fix popup horizontal scroll issues on new layouts
- Improve start/end segment button text
New in SponsorBlock for YouTube (Chrome) 5.0.4 (Sep 23, 2022)
- Fix wrong css property name
- Change next keybind button for better compatibility
- Fix preview bar on mobile
- Add export to unsubmitted segments
- Hide import button when no video found
- Add notice about chapters for free users
- Only hide chapter name suggestions when focus lost
- Fix chapter chevron sometimes not appearing
- Fix popup layout on safari
New in SponsorBlock for YouTube (Chrome) 5.0.3 (Sep 19, 2022)
- Changes minor version:
- Try to fix issues with chapter bar hiding
- Add option to show categories in submit menu even when you can't upload them
- Fix unsubmitted segments in chapter description box
- Fix hover text offset when video a different aspect ratio
- Fix issue with chapter bar not being created
- Shrink chapter vote buttons
- Make submission menu UI more consistent
- Fix styling of empty category name suggestions menu
- Clarify chapter submission permission
- Change opacity of options
New in SponsorBlock for YouTube (Chrome) 5.0.2 Pre-release (Sep 16, 2022)
- Fix too many hover text tooltips
- Fix last preview bar being off
- Fix preview bar size offset with big mode
- Sync official chapter margin
- Fix seek bar sometimes becoming empty when one seek section is completely filled
- Fix chapters getting offset when small chapters filtered out
- Fix last imported chapter not displaying sometimes
- Fix segments not available when hover preview -> click on same video
- Add more checks to prevent double seek bar or no seek bar
- Fix info button animation
- Fix doubling up segments in multi segment skip notice
- Fix some skips being ignored when close to chapters
- Fix hover for first chapter
- Improve next chapter and previous chapter keybind
- Rename import chapters to import segments
- Handle preview bar hover without js
New in SponsorBlock for YouTube (Chrome) 5.0.1 Pre-release (Sep 5, 2022)
- Features:
- Add option to manual skip when a full video segment exists
- Fixes:
- Add support for hours in import segments
- Fix the freezing on firefox due to hover preview text
- Don't show empty chapter bar for youtube chapters in popup
- Fix crashes on invidious
- Fix copy tooltip
- Properly handle hover previews for chapters and clear old unused ones
- Fix chapter -> full -> chapter not saving times
- Prevent some event bubbling issues
- Don't carry over incorrect/harmful vote menu between videos
- Prevent creating multiple chapter vote containers
- Fix vote buttons appearing for unsubmitted segments
- fix react errors about using inherit
- Safer document script
- Hide custom chapter bar while generating
New in SponsorBlock for YouTube (Chrome) 5.0 Pre-release (Sep 3, 2022)
- Add a section in options for unsubmitted segments (thanks @mini-bomba)
- Catch more HTML errors (thanks @mchangrh)
- Fix popup width when embedded in page (thanks @AlecRust)
- update wording of Preview to be inline with wiki (thanks @mchangrh)
- allow disabling mute segments locally (thanks @mchangrh)
- Fix issues with Dark Reader & Invidious themes (thanks @mini-bomba)
New in SponsorBlock for YouTube (Chrome) 4.7.1 (Jul 22, 2022)
- Fix bug where videoID not detected after searching for a video
New in SponsorBlock for YouTube (Chrome) 4.7 (Jul 21, 2022)
- Fix categories not being able to be disabled
- Fix skipping two segments starting at the same time with autoskip on music videos enabled
- Keep muting if about to autoskip after a mute
- New UI for warnings
New in SponsorBlock for YouTube (Chrome) 4.6.4 (Jul 13, 2022)
- Fix regression causing overlapping skips not to skip properly
New in SponsorBlock for YouTube (Chrome) 4.6.3 (Jul 12, 2022)
- Added retry for server errors
- Fix segments sometimes disappearing when changing options
- Fix skipping multiple segments with the exact same start time
- Improve zero second segments
New in SponsorBlock for YouTube (Chrome) 4.6.2 (Jul 4, 2022)
- Fix scrubbing on mobile YouTube
- Add timestamp to options export (thanks @mchangrh )
New in SponsorBlock for YouTube (Chrome) 4.6.1 (Jul 1, 2022)
- Fix embeds not working after YouTube change (thanks @mchangrh )
- Show connection errors when fetching segments (thanks @mchangrh )
- Fix popup being out of date and never auto-close
New in SponsorBlock for YouTube (Chrome) 4.6 (Jun 19, 2022)
- Forward key presses from in-page popup
- Remove cursor pointer where it shouldn't be
- Fix alignment of username box on popup
- Fix segment help page not closing when using keybinds
- Auto-hide voted text after voting in popup (thanks @Argn0 )
- Better automated tests
New in SponsorBlock for YouTube (Chrome) 4.5.1 (Jun 5, 2022)
- Fix copy button on in-page popup
New in SponsorBlock for YouTube (Chrome) 4.5 (Jun 4, 2022)
- Popup styling change (thanks @PickleNik )
- Fix channelID parsing for /user/ URLs
- Add new help page showing off guidelines for each category
- Use history API to reduce unnecessary usage of the background page
- Move popup to Iframe for improved security (thanks @NDevTK )
- Fix ratelimiting when changing category colour (thanks @Argn0 )
- Fix mobile Firefox icon
- Delete items if storage is getting close to limit
New in SponsorBlock for YouTube (Chrome) 4.4.5 (May 26, 2022)
- Fix issue with skip sometimes not happening
New in SponsorBlock for YouTube (Chrome) 4.4.4 (May 25, 2022)
- Fix channelID parsing, should fix whitelisting
New in SponsorBlock for YouTube (Chrome) 4.4.2 (May 20, 2022)
- Changes this version:
- Fix some cases with whitelisting
- Fix skip to highlight on mobile
- Fix icon on Firefox for Android
- Improve debug logs
New in SponsorBlock for YouTube (Chrome) 4.4.1 (May 19, 2022)
- Fix error related to channel id parsing
- Add some more logging to catch skipping issues
New in SponsorBlock for YouTube (Chrome) 4.4 (May 18, 2022)
- Don't hide skip to highlight if you disable buttons
- Fix preview bar on mobile videos with chapters (thanks @mchangrh )
- Fix preview bar on some Invidious players (thanks @mchangrh )
- Fix mobile time without skips looking wrong
- Add warning messages to help catch skipping issues
New in SponsorBlock for YouTube (Chrome) 4.3.3 (May 6, 2022)
- Fix submissions sometimes disappearing after submitting
New in SponsorBlock for YouTube (Chrome) 4.3.1 (May 4, 2022)
- Fix duplicate skip notices
- Fix hover color on buttons in popup (thanks @AlecRust )
- Fix old video ids sometimes being fetched
- Add tooltips to buttons in popup
New in SponsorBlock for YouTube (Chrome) 4.2.1 (Mar 18, 2022)
- Fix early skipping on Firefox
New in SponsorBlock for YouTube (Chrome) 4.2 (Mar 17, 2022)
- Improve skipping precision on Chromium
- Fix skip notice on mobile being unclickable
- Improved voting buttons on popup (thanks @AlecRust )
New in SponsorBlock for YouTube (Chrome) 4.1.6 (Mar 12, 2022)
- Changes this version:
- Another fix for hotkeys
- Add menu bar to popup (thanks @AlecRust )
- Improve user info fetching (thanks @MRuy )
- Hide ugly error messages (thanks @mchangrh )
New in SponsorBlock for YouTube (Chrome) 4.1.5 (Feb 24, 2022)
- Another attempt to fix hotkeys (thanks @AronHK )
- Fix playlists causing skips to fail on Safari (thanks @asportnoy )
- Settings layout fixes (thanks @AronHK )
New in SponsorBlock for YouTube (Chrome) 4.1.4 (Feb 22, 2022)
- Fix show full video label option
- Fix minimum segment duration not working
- Fix it not saving your times when accidentally switching to Exclusive Access category, and then switching back
- Display full video label right after submitting it
New in SponsorBlock for YouTube (Chrome) 4.1.3 (Feb 12, 2022)
- Changes this version:
- Fix hotkey after alt-tab (thanks @AronHK )
New in SponsorBlock for YouTube (Chrome) 4.1.2 (Feb 9, 2022)
- Improve precision of skipping on Firefox and some devices with Chromium
New in SponsorBlock for YouTube (Chrome) 4.1.1 Pre-release (Feb 8, 2022)
- Changes this minor version:
- Add option to disable storing downvotes
- Rename Filler Tangent to Filler Tangent/Joke
- Hide inspect and edit for Full video segments (thanks @mchangrh )
- Potential fix for migration running out of storage
- Don't save dislikes for VIP
- Fix some icon issues
- Changes since last major version:
- Save downvotes after refreshing to never see disliked segments
- New settings page look (thanks @AronHK )
- Add option to temporarily hide segments via the popup
- Hide segments when voting via the popup (before, this only worked when hiding via skip notice)
- Fix text color for full video category labels with custom colors
- Add new tooltip to full video labels
- Fix sound on skip messing with media controls (thanks @mchangrh )
- Save times when accidentally switching to exclusive access and back
- Moved unsubmitted segments to use storage format that should use less resources
- Don't load pre-made segments from URL multiple times
- Fix for YouTube Clips (thanks @mchangrh )
New in SponsorBlock for YouTube (Chrome) 4.1 Beta (Feb 7, 2022)
- Save downvotes after refreshing to never see disliked segments
- New settings page look (thanks @AronHK )
- Add option to temporarily hide segments via the popup
- Hide segments when voting via the popup (before, this only worked when hiding via skip notice)
- Fix text color for full video category labels with custom colors
- Add new tooltip to full video labels
- Fix sound on skip messing with media controls (thanks @mchangrh )
- Save times when accidentally switching to exclusive access and back
- Moved unsubmitted segments to use storage format that should use less resources
- Don't load pre-made segments from URL multiple times
- Fix for YouTube Clips (thanks @mchangrh )
New in SponsorBlock for YouTube (Chrome) 4.0.5 (Jan 21, 2022)
- Fix loading segments on hover previews; Should fix issues with buttons sometimes not appearing
- Remove retry logic when server is down to not overload it
New in SponsorBlock for YouTube (Chrome) 4.0.4 (Jan 18, 2022)
- Fix full video segments sometimes causing skipping errors
- Don't allow submissions on active premieres or livestreams
- Add method to automatically pre-fill segments
New in SponsorBlock for YouTube (Chrome) 4.0.3 (Jan 15, 2022)
- Changes this version:
- Don't warn about duration for when submitting a "Full video" label
- Improve build scripts
- Changes since last major version:
- Add "Full video" label option
- Add Exclusive Access category
New in SponsorBlock for YouTube (Chrome) 4.0.2 (Jan 14, 2022)
- Changes this version:
- Update translations
- Changes since last major version:
- Add "Full video" label option
- Add Exclusive Access category
- Make question mark links go directly to wiki pages
- Support embedded videos, channel trailers and previews (thanks @mchangrh )
New in SponsorBlock for YouTube (Chrome) 4.0.1 (Jan 14, 2022)
- Changes this version:
- Add Exclusive Access category
- Make question mark links go directly to wiki pages
- Add close button to full video category pills
- Make full video work on newer YouTube layouts
- Changes since last major version:
- Add "Full video" label option
- Support embedded videos, channel trailers and previews (thanks @mchangrh )
New in SponsorBlock for YouTube (Chrome) 4.0 Beta (Jan 7, 2022)
- Add "Full video" label option
- Support embedded videos and channel trailers (thanks @mchangrh )
New in SponsorBlock for YouTube (Chrome) 3.7.2 (Jan 2, 2022)
- Changes this version:
- Fix saved days being calculated wrong in popup (thanks @Choromanski )
- Changes this since the last major version:
- Fix high CPU usage on YouTube Music (thanks @CyberPhoenix90 )
- Fix deleting segment in submission notice causing the category to be wrong
- Fix video looping on Safari when skipping to the end of the video
- Fix auto-hide info button affecting skip to highlight
- Fix userID hiding when it shouldn't
- Fix errors when audio notification is used (thanks @AronHK )
- Format hours in popup (thanks @Choromanski )
- Update invidious list automatically (thanks @mchangrh )
- Remove filler update notice
New in SponsorBlock for YouTube (Chrome) 3.7.1 (Dec 30, 2021)
- Changes this version:
- Fix high CPU usage on YouTube Music (thanks @CyberPhoenix90 )
- Changes this since the last major version:
- Fix deleting segment in submission notice causing the category to be wrong
- Fix video looping on Safari when skipping to the end of the video
- Fix auto-hide info button affecting skip to highlight
- Fix userID hiding when it shouldn't
- Fix errors when audio notification is used (thanks @AronHK )
- Format hours in popup (thanks @Choromanski )
- Update invidious list automatically (thanks @mchangrh )
- Remove filler update notice
New in SponsorBlock for YouTube (Chrome) 3.6.2 (Nov 25, 2021)
- Changes this version:
- Fix start time on preview bar sometimes behaving weird
- Add tooltip that appears telling people about the new Filler category
New in SponsorBlock for YouTube (Chrome) 3.6.1 (Nov 10, 2021)
New in SponsorBlock for YouTube (Chrome) 3.6 (Nov 9, 2021)
- Changes this version:
- Add Filler Tangent category
- Allow submitting mute segments for intro, outro and preview
New in SponsorBlock for YouTube (Chrome) 3.5.2 (Nov 2, 2021)
- Remove duration change filter, should fix issues with segments not appearing on first load
- Save second value when switching submission to highlight and back (thanks @FlorianZahn )
- Remove skip notice when seeking to highlight manually
New in SponsorBlock for YouTube (Chrome) 3.5.1 (Oct 24, 2021)
- Fix scrolling on submission notice.
- Fix skip to highlight on mobile.
New in SponsorBlock for YouTube (Chrome) 3.5 (Oct 22, 2021)
- Changes this version:
- Make skip buttons bigger on mobile skip notice
- Add wiki links to options page
- Add support for required segments
- Fix start time in preview bar always at zero
- Skip to highlight on mobile
- Appears on the left with low opacity, can be swiped away
- Button reappears when controls are opened
New in SponsorBlock for YouTube (Chrome) 3.4 Beta (Oct 16, 2021)
- Changes this release:
- Improve voting and add copy + downvote option (thanks @FlorianZahn )
- Add scrolling to time editing to make small changes to time (thanks @FlorianZahn )
- Attempt to fix info button randomly reappearing
- Fix unsubmitted segments sometimes not skipping
- Add notice for VIPs when voting on locked segments or locked videos (thanks @FlorianZahn )
- Add margin bottom to popup (thanks @maximmax42 )
New in SponsorBlock for YouTube (Chrome) 3.3.3 (Oct 7, 2021)
- Hide skip to highlight button right away after timeout
- Fix for older browsers that don't support named capturing groups
- Support shorts urls
New in SponsorBlock for YouTube (Chrome) 3.3.2 (Oct 3, 2021)
- Changes this minor version:
- Fix buffering issues with skip to highlight
- Fix starting segment sometimes not being skipped
- Fix starting segments being skipped when url contains ?t=12s
- Fix duration filter sometimes removing all segments
- Add some more error checks
- Changes since last major version:
- Highlight button now persists (thanks @FlorianZahn )
- Player button options now more compressed
- Hide segments when video duration changes
- Make auto-hiding info button better
- Fix styling on voting wrong category
New in SponsorBlock for YouTube (Chrome) 3.3 Beta (Oct 1, 2021)
- Highlight button now persists (thanks @FlorianZahn )
- Player button options now more compressed
- Hide segments when video duration changes
- Make auto-hiding info button better
New in SponsorBlock for YouTube (Chrome) 3.2 (Sep 20, 2021)
- Fix skips in the middle of mute segments
- Add warning for submitting multiple highlight segments
- Fix username wrapping (thanks @LofhJann )
- Make preview button playback speed dependant (thanks @FlorianZahn )
New in SponsorBlock for YouTube (Chrome) 3.1.2 (Sep 8, 2021)
New in SponsorBlock for YouTube (Chrome) 3.1.1 (Sep 5, 2021)
- Changes this version:
- Say muted instead of skipped for mute segments
- Only show mute option for supported categories
New in SponsorBlock for YouTube (Chrome) 3.1 (Sep 4, 2021)
- Changes this version:
- Add new "silent" option for muting sponsors and other categories
- Update matrix links (thanks @mchangrh )
- Add copy button beside username to get public userID
New in SponsorBlock for YouTube (Chrome) 3.0.5 (Sep 2, 2021)
- Fix centering on submission notice
New in SponsorBlock for YouTube (Chrome) 3.0.4 (Sep 2, 2021)
- Make highlight appear hover text easier to use
- Fix preview sometimes not skipping
- Fix UI issues when text is long (other languages)
- Fix multiple segments skipped popup not appearing
- Add copy public id button
- Fix highlight appearing as two timestamps in popup
- Always show refresh segments button
New in SponsorBlock for YouTube (Chrome) 3.0.3 Beta (Aug 24, 2021)
- Fix keybind being flaky
- Fix highlight category when minimum duration set
- Fix Invidious support
New in SponsorBlock for YouTube (Chrome) 3.0.2 Beta (Aug 23, 2021)
- Fix skipping issue when highlight segment is early in video
- Fix highlight auto skipping on music videos
- Fix auto skip on music videos setting only working for manual skip
New in SponsorBlock for YouTube (Chrome) 3.0.1 Beta (Aug 21, 2021)
- Changes this version:
- Close skip to highlight when changing videos
- Fix refreshing segments when no segments are found
New in SponsorBlock for YouTube (Chrome) 2.2 (Aug 21, 2021)
- Changes this version:
- Add option to skip all segments on music videos
- Fix animations on popup
- fix previewing in some cases (thanks @mchangrh )
New in SponsorBlock for YouTube (Chrome) 2.2 Beta (Aug 9, 2021)
- Changes this version:
- Add option to skip all segments on music videos
- Fix animations on popup
- fix previewing in some cases (thanks @mchangrh )
New in SponsorBlock for YouTube (Chrome) 2.1.4.1 (Aug 5, 2021)
- Changed in this minor version:
- Fix chat not working when there was no specified warning reason
- Changes since last major version:
- Fix popup on Firefox
- Make scroll bars dark on Chromium (thanks @rakleed )
- Add an in-line chat when you get a warning
New in SponsorBlock for YouTube (Chrome) 2.1.4 (Jul 31, 2021)
- Changes this version:
- Fix popup on Firefox
- Make scroll bars dark on Chromium (thanks @rakleed )
- Add an in-line chat when you get a warning
New in SponsorBlock for YouTube (Chrome) 2.1.3 (Jul 28, 2021)
- Changes this version:
- Add animation to refresh segments and copy button
- Fix whitelist title text
- Clear notices when changing videos
- Handle / in channel URLs for whitelisting
- Remove unlisted video submission experiment
- Clean up some text on the help page
New in SponsorBlock for YouTube (Chrome) 2.1.2.1 (Jul 13, 2021)
- Fix typo in unlisted video prompt
- Add refresh button
New in SponsorBlock for YouTube (Chrome) 2.1.0.2 (Jun 24, 2021)
- Added a small popup when it finds an unlisted video from before 2017:
- This will be used to collect old videos that will be deleted soon due to https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/9230970
New in SponsorBlock for YouTube (Chrome) 2.1.0 Beta (Jun 18, 2021)
- Changes since last major version:
- Add preview category
- Set to Manual Skip by default for anyone with Intermission set to Auto Skip or Manual Skip
- Improved hotkey detection to work even if the video is not focused
- Make the get_video_info method of retrieving channel work again
- This should make channel fetching work more often like before and be slightly faster
- Add support for Cloudtube
- Make options page searchable and make text copyable
- Fix clipboard icon sometimes not appearing (thanks @MRuy )
- Grow the preview bar when you hover over the scrollbar (when there are not chapters)
- Add option to not count skip time in private (incognito) tabs
- Switched licenses to LGPL-30 with agreement from all contributors
New in SponsorBlock for YouTube (Chrome) 2.0.17.1 (Jun 18, 2021)
- Changes this minor version:
- Add proper support for new Firefox for Android
- Fix potential infinite loop when creating skip notice
- Use mutation listener to not break if the video element gets changed:
- Potentially fixes issues caused by sudden buffering
- Changes since last major version:
- Change segment list layout in popup (thanks @MRuy )
- Auto-refresh segments when creating new ones
- Potentially fix segments from the wrong video appearing
New in SponsorBlock for YouTube (Chrome) 2.0.17.1 Beta (Jun 10, 2021)
- Changes this minor version:
- Add proper support for new Firefox for Android
- Use mutation listener to not break if the video element gets changed
- Potentially fixes issues caused by sudden buffering
- Fix potential infinite loop when creating skip notice
New in SponsorBlock for YouTube (Chrome) 2.0.17 Beta (Jun 2, 2021)
- Changes since last major version:
- Change segment list layout in popup (thanks @MRuy )
- Auto-refresh segments when creating new ones
- Potentially fix segments from the wrong video appearing
New in SponsorBlock for YouTube (Chrome) 2.0.16.2 (May 24, 2021)
- Don't break upload notice when clearing segments
- Remove "sponsor" from some HTML elements to prevent adblockers from hiding them
- Change icons for failed upload and cancel segment
- Fix partial segments not appearing in upload menu
- Switch player buttons to svg
- Make channel ID fetching fail silently, and assume channel is not whitelisted if it fails
New in SponsorBlock for YouTube (Chrome) 2.0.15.1 (May 20, 2021)
New in SponsorBlock for YouTube (Chrome) 2.0.14.2 (May 17, 2021)
- Update video info fetching error message
New in SponsorBlock for YouTube (Chrome) 2.0.14.1 (May 13, 2021)
- Don't ask for permission to make requests to youtube.com multiple times
New in SponsorBlock for YouTube (Chrome) 2.0.13.1 (Mar 25, 2021)
New in SponsorBlock for YouTube (Chrome) 2.0.13.1 Beta (Mar 24, 2021)
- Changes this minor release:
- Updated translations
- Changes since last stable version:
- Enable hash prefix by default
- Fix skip notice appearing behind end cards
- Fix some rounding issues
- Update non-music category description
- Fix Invidious embeds (thanks @ljoonal )
- Add UUID copy button (thanks @caneleex )
- Fix duration with skips showing NaN (thanks @gubareve )
New in SponsorBlock for YouTube (Chrome) 2.0.13 Beta (Mar 16, 2021)
- Enable hash prefix by default
- Fix skip notice appearing behind end cards
- Fix some rounding issues
- Update non-music category description
- Fix Invidious embeds (thanks @ljoonal )
- Add UUID copy button (thanks @caneleex )
- Fix duration with skips showing NaN (thanks @gubareve )
New in SponsorBlock for YouTube (Chrome) 2.0.12.3 (Feb 4, 2021)
- Fix invidious support not working
New in SponsorBlock for YouTube (Chrome) 2.0.12.2 (Feb 1, 2021)
- Changes this version:
- Fix unsubmitted segments being deleted
- Changes since last stable version:
- Change skip notice visibility behavior
- Made skip notice countdown more accurate
- Remove code to show notification if you forget to submit
- Increase re-fetch frequency
- Show error messages from the server when voting
- Non feature changes:
- Remove leftover empty lists in the unsubmitted segment list
- Log data returned from YouTube if it failed to be processed
New in SponsorBlock for YouTube (Chrome) 2.0.12.1 (Jan 31, 2021)
- Changes this version:
- Fix unsubmitted segments being deleted
- Changes since last stable version:
- Change skip notice visibility behavior
- Made skip notice countdown more accurate
- Remove code to show notification if you forget to submit
- Increase re-fetch frequency
- Show error messages from the server when voting
- Non feature changes:
- Remove leftover empty lists in the unsubmitted segment list
- Log data returned from YouTube if it failed to be processed
New in SponsorBlock for YouTube (Chrome) 2.0.12.1 Beta (Jan 28, 2021)
- Change skip notice visibility behavior
- Made skip notice countdown more accurate
- Remove code to show notification if you forget to submit
- Increase re-fetch frequency
- Show error messages from the server when voting
New in SponsorBlock for YouTube (Chrome) 2.0.12 Beta (Jan 27, 2021)
- Remove leftover empty lists in the unsubmitted segment list
New in SponsorBlock for YouTube (Chrome) 2.0.11.2 Beta (Jan 3, 2021)
- Changed YouCap notice text
New in SponsorBlock for YouTube (Chrome) 2.0.11 Beta (Dec 30, 2020)
- Fix manual skip skipping directly into an adjacent segment
- Lock category order and always show every category when submitting
- Fix issue with unlisted check sometimes being blocked
- Fix mobile support
- Ensure end time is always after start time
- Preview bar fixes (thanks @opl- ):
- Segments hidden by longer segments
- Duration with skips not accounting for segment overlaps
- Segment category text in preview tooltip overlaps the seek bar
- Segment category text in preview tooltip breaks for timestamps over one hour
New in SponsorBlock for YouTube (Chrome) 2.0.10.1 Beta (Dec 15, 2020)
- Changes this version:
- Fixes to the popup from suggestions
New in SponsorBlock for YouTube (Chrome) 2.0.10 Beta (Dec 15, 2020)
- Changes this version:
- New popup look (thanks @mbledkowski )
- Potential fix for stuttering sometimes causing the video to restart from the beginning on Firefox
- Now compatible with videospeed extension (once an update is pushed on their side)
New in SponsorBlock for YouTube (Chrome) 2.0.9 GitHub Beta (Nov 21, 2020)
- Changes this version:
- Change segment editing format (thanks @opl- )
- Only send audio notification for auto-skip (thanks @Joe-Dowd )
- Fix starting segments not skipping when internet is slow (thanks @SuspiciousActivity )
New in SponsorBlock for YouTube (Chrome) 2.0.8 GitHub (Oct 15, 2020)
- Fix skipping at the end of looped videos in playlists not working (thanks @SuspiciousActivity )
- "Skip {category}?" messages can now be in different orders per language (thanks @skyfrk )
- Switched to browser native function for hashing (thanks @Dainius14 )
New in SponsorBlock for YouTube (Chrome) 2.0.7 GitHub (Sep 16, 2020)
- Added query by hash prefix to preserve user privacy using k-anonymity (ajayyy/SponsorBlockServer#25 thanks @Joe-Dowd )
- Fixed some strings
- Don't unpause when inspecting
New in SponsorBlock for YouTube (Chrome) 2.0.6.1 Pre-release (Sep 12, 2020)
- Fix Firefox xpi release issue.
New in SponsorBlock for YouTube (Chrome) 2.0.5 (Aug 11, 2020)
- Fix issues with double notices for manual skip
- Fixed for start segments and manual skips immediately following an autoskip
- Don't show NaN in the time without skips
- Updated outro description
New in SponsorBlock for YouTube (Chrome) 2.0.5 Beta (Aug 7, 2020)
- Changes this version:
- Fix issues with double notices for manual skip
- Fixed for start segments and manual skips immediately following an autoskip
- Don't show NaN in the time without skips
- Updated outro description
New in SponsorBlock for YouTube (Chrome) 2.0.4.2 Pre-release (Jul 19, 2020)
- Fixed blank category segments not skipping
- Fixed "Show On Overlay" preview segments not auto skipping
- Fixed time with skips not placing a zero in front of minutes when hours are present
- Update descriptions
New in SponsorBlock for YouTube (Chrome) 2.0.4 Pre-release (Jul 13, 2020)
- Changes this version:
- Default submissions to blank category
- Fixed mobile YouTube crash - Removed submitting on mobile
- Fixed invidious preview bar and other css issues
- Added hours to time without skips
New in SponsorBlock for YouTube (Chrome) 2.0.3 Pre-release (Jul 4, 2020)
- Unsubmitted segments now save their category
- Shows the time minus skip time (thanks @NDevTK )
- Renamed "Intro Animation" to "Intermission/Intro Animation"
- Show short names when hovering in the preview bar
- Allow colon in invidious options
- Removed restriction with not using YouTube keybinds (#379 )
- Reload options page after importing options
New in SponsorBlock for YouTube (Chrome) 2.0.2.2 (Jun 21, 2020)
- Hotfix for language issue
New in SponsorBlock for YouTube (Chrome) 2.0.2 (Jun 21, 2020)
- Fixed help page having double headers
New in SponsorBlock for YouTube (Chrome) 2.0.1 (Jun 17, 2020)
- Fixed options missing from options page.
New in SponsorBlock for YouTube (Chrome) 2.0 (Jun 8, 2020)
- Categories
- New submission menu
- Moved network requests to background script
- Submit multiple segments in one request
- New voting options
- Moved to react
New in SponsorBlock for YouTube (Chrome) 1.2.31 Pre-release (Jun 7, 2020)
- Seek bar colors are now customizable
- Help page now has embedded options page
- Added category descriptions
- Added guidelines button and help button to submission notice
- Changes to "Read the Guidelines!!" for the first few submissions
- Added option to disable unsubmitted segments notification
New in SponsorBlock for YouTube (Chrome) 1.2.30 Pre-release (Jun 3, 2020)
- Move network requests to the background script
- This should prevent uBlock/uMatrix/PrivacyBadger from interfering
- Fix local time saved tracking
- Made preview submissions always auto skip
- Revised naming of self promotion category
New in SponsorBlock for YouTube (Chrome) 1.2.29 Pre-release (May 21, 2020)
- Notice now supports skipping multiple segments at once and voting on them
- Auto upvote removed and upvote button is back
New in SponsorBlock for YouTube (Chrome) 1.2.28.4 Pre-release (May 17, 2020)
- Changes this version:
- Category update 4.4
- Fixed preview submissions not skipping
- Renamed "incorrect" voting option
- Added category names to notice
- Added the ability to stop the notice timer by clicking it
- Don't skip during actual YouTube ads (thanks @rafern!)
New in SponsorBlock for YouTube (Chrome) 1.2.28.3 Pre-release (May 16, 2020)
- Added another check to prevent phantom skips
- Enabled incorrect category vote for use on the main server
New in SponsorBlock for YouTube (Chrome) 1.2.28.2 Pre-release (May 13, 2020)
- Fixed preview bar hover text causing a stackoverflow on Firefox
- Added null checks for video info
- Fixed new video time getting code
New in SponsorBlock for YouTube (Chrome) 1.2.28.1 Pre-release (May 12, 2020)
- Remove offtopic category from category selections if still there from prior version
- Changed end of video check to use the replay button instead of the endscreen
New in SponsorBlock for YouTube (Chrome) 1.2.27 Pre-release (Apr 27, 2020)
- Category update 3:
- Changed whitelisting and unlisted check to use JSON
- Should be much faster and work more often
- Added an option to force a whitelist check before skipping
- This should prevent zero second sponsors from sometimes skipping on whitelisted channels
- Added error messages if adblockers block some requests
- Improved warning about user-hidden sponsors
- Fix Firefox popup issues
- Changed popup colour
- Check for incorrect videoID more often
- Fixed local submission count not working
- Added set to end time button
- Category list in submission UI updates when categories are enabled
New in SponsorBlock for YouTube (Chrome) 1.2.26 Pre-release (Apr 20, 2020)
- Submission notice now scrollable
- Only show selected categories when submitting
- changed "show on overlay" to "show in seek bar"
- Fixed preview button
- Notices properly clean up
New in SponsorBlock for YouTube (Chrome) 1.2.25 Pre-release (Apr 10, 2020)
- Changes this version:
- Categories MVP update!
- UI now built in React
- Submission now uses custom dialog box that handles edits
- Editing in the popup has been disabled
- Categories can now be chosen in the submission panel
- Skipping can be controlled per category in several modes (disabled, show overlay, manual skip, auto skip)
- Option to have an auto notification when you skip
- Now displays server error messages
New in SponsorBlock for YouTube (Chrome) 1.2.23 (Apr 3, 2020)
- Improved skipping
- Fixed sponsorTimes data on export and import
- Added restrictions to keybinds (thanks @Joe-Dowd )
- Added debug copy button (thanks @Joe-Dowd )
New in SponsorBlock for YouTube (Chrome) 1.2.22 (Mar 11, 2020)
- Changes this version:
- Converted sponsorTimes map to an array instead of string when saving locally
- Added import/export options
- Asks for proper permissions when changing the server address on Firefox
- Fixed double notice for zero second sponsors with manual skip enabled
New in SponsorBlock for YouTube (Chrome) 1.2.21 (Mar 10, 2020)
- Fix non zero second skips
- Fixes auto skip scheduling
- Prevents manual skip auto-votes from affecting the UI
New in SponsorBlock for YouTube (Chrome) 1.2.19 (Mar 9, 2020)
- Another try to fix zero second sponsor freezing issue.
New in SponsorBlock for YouTube (Chrome) 1.2.13 (Feb 21, 2020)
- Keeps decimals when editing a sponsor