04 / CONTENT & PRIVACY
Decide what stays in view.
Segment management, YouTube-specific ad controls, visibility and local viewing tools.
SponsorBlock toolsSkipping is only the beginning.
- Sponsor segment auto-skip, segment muting and full-video segment handling. Timeline markers with configurable opacity, skip padding and minimum-duration controls.
- Time-saved, segments-skipped and segments-contributed accounting. Segment upvote/downvote and optional view/downvote tracking controls, with separate private/incognito tracking preferences where supported.
- Upcoming notices, auto-skip notices, configurable duration/style and optional skip audio notification. Full-video labels on thumbnails.
- Marker tooltips, manual-skip text, chapter text, chapter information and category guidance.
- Segment contribution and submission; segment creation, delete, upload and information controls in the player. Preview, submit, contribution and scroll-to-edit workflows.
- Segment and chapter manager, SponsorBlock chapter integration, and creator/autogenerated chapter display and merging options.
- Skip profiles with temporary, tab, channel and video-level resolution; channel and video profile assignments.
- Video-level ignore controls, segment-level overrides and advanced skip rules.
- Separate behavior for Sponsor, Self-Promo, Interaction, Intro, Outro, Preview, Hook, Filler, Off-Topic Music, Highlight, Exclusive Access and Chapter categories.
- Music-video auto-skip options and YouTube Music-specific non-music handling.
- Configurable keys for skip, highlight, mark, submit, final submit, preview, next/previous chapter, close notice, upvote and downvote.
- Advanced rules can use channel, video, segment, chapter source, time range/percentage, video duration and title context. Segments can use Auto, Ask, Mark or Off policies.
YouTube ads & visibilityControl specific ad surfaces and page elements.
- Hide feed ads, masthead ads, companion ads and player overlay ads. Control paid-promotion badge visibility.
- Ad-control mode and anti-adblock policy options.
- Hide Shorts, comments, sidebar, endscreen, information cards, Live Chat, description and merchandise shelf.
Comment filterHide or blur terms you choose.
- Hide or Blur behavior, with optional inclusion of replies.
- User-defined custom term list and advanced matching, including case-sensitive and whole-word matching.
- Punctuation normalization and text normalization.
- Temporarily reveal filtered comments on hover/click. Hide or blur spoilers and other unwanted terms under user control.
Ghost ModeSeparate watch-history and search-history controls.
- Manage YouTube watch-history protection and search-history protection independently, and monitor them from Studio.
NonStopKeep playback moving.
- Automatically dismiss playback interruption and “Are you still watching?” style prompts.
- Background playback continuity and recovery-window control.
Personal Watch StatsYour viewing statistics, stored locally.
- Total watch time, session counts and Shorts/standard/live separation.
- Video and channel context, category information, date-range and retention settings.
- Export, import, reset and metadata repair/reclassification tools.

