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Re:Searches for VPN Soar in Utah Amidst Pornhub Blockage by rpastuszak on Wednesday May 03, 2023 @06:39PM (#35808782)
NordVPN actually inspired me to work on my current personal project: a "human" ad blocker for sponsored content on Youtube: https://github.com/paprikka/butter

I'll push a more stable version later this week. Feel free to spam me via the email in my profile desc if you have any feedback or ideas.

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Re:Searches for VPN Soar in Utah Amidst Pornhub Blockage by yegor on Wednesday May 03, 2023 @06:49PM (#35808875)
How does it work? I personally use this one https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/sponsorblock-for-y...

It requires users to provide timestamps for "sponsored by" content, so the player skips over it.

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Re:Searches for VPN Soar in Utah Amidst Pornhub Blockage by rpastuszak on Wednesday May 03, 2023 @07:10PM (#35809073)
I extract text from video captions and use GPT to detect the sponsored time stamp candidates.

The upside is that it can work for any video without the initial user interaction. Manual/user corrections can be applied afterwards ofc.

I’m trying to figure out if it can be good enough to be considered useful at this stage. Sponsorblock looks great. The reputation score/leaderboard is a superior approach imho.

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Re:Searches for VPN Soar in Utah Amidst Pornhub Blockage by jonas-w on Wednesday May 03, 2023 @06:59PM (#35808977)
Sponsorblock is also integrated into piped for example https://piped.video/
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