Skipper AI — YouTube Sponsor Skip

Skip YouTube sponsors, see AI audience ratings from the comments, and track your watch time — private, no API key needed.

Skip YouTube sponsor segments automatically with Skipper AI, a free, open-source Chrome extension. It combines SponsorBlock community timestamps with optional AI analysis to help find sponsor reads on videos the community has not covered yet. No API key or Skipper account is required. AUTOMATIC SPONSOR SKIPPING • Skip supported sponsor reads, self-promotions, intros and outros. • Choose which categories to skip. Intros and outros are off by default. • See detected segments marked on YouTube's video timeline. • Undo a skip when you want to watch the segment. • Pin Skipper to see the detected segment count on its toolbar icon. SPONSORBLOCK + OPTIONAL YOUTUBE AI Community-powered skipping works without signing in to YouTube. When community and shared results are unavailable, Skipper can use YouTube's built-in "Ask about this video" AI feature to identify sponsor timestamps, including on newly uploaded videos when the feature is available. AI analysis requires an eligible signed-in YouTube account and a supported region, language and video. Signing in alone does not guarantee access. Availability and AI timestamp accuracy may vary. AI AUDIENCE RATINGS FROM COMMENTS An optional rating badge summarizes a sample of the video's public top comments, weighted by likes. Open it for a positive, neutral and negative breakdown and a short AI-generated summary. Ratings reflect sampled comments and may be imperfect. Turn the badge off in settings whenever you prefer. PRIVATE WATCH-TIME DASHBOARD Review your time saved, sponsor segments skipped, YouTube watch time, browsing time, Shorts time and top channels. Usage statistics are stored on your device and can be cleared from the dashboard. GET STARTED 1. Install Skipper and reload any YouTube tabs that were already open. 2. Pin the extension to your toolbar. 3. Open a YouTube video. Available sponsor segments are skipped automatically. 4. Open the popup to adjust skip categories or view your dashboard. PRIVACY • Skipper sends no usage telemetry. • Watch-time statistics and diagnostic logs are stored locally. • SponsorBlock lookups send a hash prefix of the video ID. • Shared sponsor timestamps and derived audience ratings use hashed video identifiers in a public cache. • Optional AI requests and sampled public comments are processed by YouTube's built-in AI feature. COVERAGE Skipper operates on standard desktop YouTube watch pages. Sponsor skipping excludes Shorts and livestreams. Some videos have no available segment data. Skipper handles creator-read sponsorships inside videos; YouTube-served ads are separate. OPEN SOURCE AND SUPPORT Source code, feedback and bug reports: https://github.com/jagdishpal02001/skipper Sponsor data is provided by SponsorBlock and its contributors under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0. Skipper's source code is MIT-licensed. Skipper is an independent project, unaffiliated with YouTube, Google, Gemini or SponsorBlock.