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Products that do what I built a cleaner YouTube – no ads, sponsors, or doomscrolling does
Hi HN! I built SkipCut it’s like an ad-free, distraction-free YouTube with useful extras: background play, SponsorBlock, dark mode, playlist support, local history, download/share buttons… and it works on any device. No install. No login. Here’s the best part: It works just by replacing "youtube" with "skipcut" in the video link. You skip all the boring stuff — ads, sponsors, intros, silence, filler and just watch what matters. Why it’s different: No comments. No suggested videos. No clickbait. I made this for my kid, I create a playlist and just send a SkipCut link like:…
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2019 · sponsor.ajay.app
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2018 · skipvid.com
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Create highly targeted Youtube ad campaigns in 5 minutes
2020
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2020 · baitblock.app
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A chrome extension that can itself detects when there is a skippable ad on a video or a youtube survey and can skip that for you without you wasting time to wait for 5 seconds and click on skip ad.
2024 · github.com
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I recently released an update adding skip categories, a long wanted feature. My blog post about these changes: https://blog.ajay.app/categories-sponsorblock Homepage: https://sponsor.ajay.app/ Source Code: https://github.com/ajayyy/SponsorBlock Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20778926
2020
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2021 · sling-music.com
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Hello HN, Extremely nervous and proud to show auto ad skipping for embedded ads. I was tired to pressing +30 +30 +30 -10 to skip ads. So I wrote a pipeline, and co-wrote app with my best friend Alex to make this happen. Feedback, suggestions, all welcome. If you can't afford, please reach out and happy to give free lifetime subscription.
Oct 2025 · hypercastapp.com
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Hey HN! Me and my brother made an undetectable YouTube adblocker that doesn't get detected by Youtube (yet). Would love to hear what you guys think!
2023 · chrome.google.com
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2018 · github.com
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This extension will replace videos on websites with a custom one that use download acceleration to prebuffer as you watch. It works on most websites, including Youtube. Fortuitously, it is also able to bypass Youtube's anti-adblock shenanigans. I started this project in high school to fix the terrible video players used on most websites. Since then, I've received a lot of feedback from my users and FastStream has improved significantly. Now that most bugs have been ironed out, I think I am ready to share it here on HN. It is still undergoing rapid development (multiple releases every week),…
2023 · faststream.online
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