Ad Fast-Forward for YouTube

Mutes YouTube video ads, blacks them out and plays them at 16x. Long ads pause once so you can press Skip.

Ad Fast-Forward mutes YouTube video ads, blacks out their picture and plays them at 16x, the fastest rate Chrome allows. A 30-second ad is over in about 2 seconds, without a sound. Long ads (over about 65 seconds) pause once, after their first 15 seconds, so you can press Skip yourself. YouTube ignores clicks made by scripts, so Skip stays with you. WHAT IT DOES • Mutes the ad video before it plays, and mutes the tab as a backup • Blacks out the ad's picture; the Skip button stays visible • Plays the ad at 16x and restores your playback speed as soon as it ends • Keeps the gap between two ads in a row silent • Pauses long ads once so you can press Skip WHAT IT NEVER DOES • Click Skip for you • Block or remove ads: the ad still loads and plays • Ask for access beyond www.youtube.com • Make network requests, store data or track you • Undo a mute that you or another extension made TOOLBAR BUTTON To hear an ad right away, click the toolbar icon during the ad. The ads in that break stay unmuted. OPEN SOURCE Apache-2.0. Source code, tests and issue tracker: https://github.com/freezinghands/youtube-ad-fast-forward WHY CHROME SAYS "READ AND CHANGE YOUR DATA ON WWW.YOUTUBE.COM" The extension needs this to see when the player shows an ad and to change that ad's speed, sound and picture. It asks for nothing else, and nothing leaves your browser. LINKS Changelog: https://github.com/freezinghands/youtube-ad-fast-forward/releases Questions: https://github.com/freezinghands/youtube-ad-fast-forward/discussions Report a bug: https://github.com/freezinghands/youtube-ad-fast-forward/issues PLEASE NOTE YouTube can change its player or its rules at any time, and the extension can stop working as a result. YouTube's Terms of Service prohibit interfering with the service; read "YouTube policy changes" in the README before you use it. This extension is not affiliated with, endorsed by or sponsored by YouTube or Google. YouTube is a trademark of Google LLC.