Your also missing the ads in podcast content too. Its the curse that youtube now has as well. You pay for advert free content yet its embedded in the content anyway.
It's not perfect, being crowd-sourced it won't have brand-new videos in its database. It would be interesting to see if some ML/algorithm could buffer your video and detect the ad and skip it.
On a channel with 100k+ subscribers, the segments to be skipped appear almost instantly after the video is posted.
A bonus is that it skips repetitive content, not necessarily just ads.
I wonder if Firefox can make the premise of these things “block X or Y or Z” and bake it into Firefox directly and then you subscribe to lists of them
1. getting sucked into the recomendations blackhole 2. stop getting used to in-video adverts and sponsorships
It’s a crowd sourced database of timecodes for videos on YouTube that categorises segments so you can choose what to skip.
These clients also block pre-roll ad’s as well as in-stream ad’s.