For this reason, the atrocity of marketing must be ruthlessly purged from human society at all costs in order to protect our fragile, easily manipulated minds.

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        • dead [he/him]
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          2 years ago

          Yeah it's a real thing. It's an addon that skips past sponsor sections in youtube videos. It also can be set to skip the skit sections of music videos.

          https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/sponsorblock/
          https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/sponsorblock-for-youtube/mnjggcdmjocbbbhaepdhchncahnbgone
          https://github.com/ajayyy/SponsorBlock/

          This is what it looks like in action. I pulled up a video. The green segments on the tracker bar are sponsored segments that will be skipped.

          https://hexbear.net/pictrs/image/Wk9OxiSxbH.png