Youtube Ads Skipper

A bookmarklet to skip ads from Youtube

What is a Bookmarklet?

A bookmarklet is a bookmark stored in a web browser that contains JavaScript commands that add new features to the browser. Bookmarklets are unobtrusive JavaScripts stored as the URL of a bookmark in a web browser or as a hyperlink on a web page. Bookmarklets are usually JavaScript programs. Regardless of whether bookmarklet utilities are stored as bookmarks or hyperlinks, they add one-click functions to a browser or web page. When clicked, a bookmarklet performs one of a wide variety of operations, such as running a search query or extracting data from a table. For example, clicking on a bookmarklet after selecting text on a webpage could run an Internet search on the selected text and display a search engine results page (wikipedia).

  • ----> 🎦 Skip Ads: Ctrl <---- (Drag to bookmarks of your browser)
  • To install the code just drag the following link to your browsers bookmarks bar.
  • This bookmarklet is produced only for education purposes. It works as like a button in the bookmarks section. While you are in a video streaming platform like YouTube, you can click the bookmarklet. When you click the bookmarklet it speeds the video and clicks the "skip" button for you. If you click while normal video is playing (not while ads are playing) the current video will play very fast. To slow down the video back to normal playback speed just click the bookmarklet again or press 'CTRL' + '0'.
  • Each tab /window or reloads needs new click again in the bookmark. But while in the same page you can just press 'Ctrl' key to skip the ads.
  • Use 'CTRL' + '+' key combination to increase the play speed +0.25
    Use 'CTRL' + '-' key combination to decrease the play speed -0.25 .
    Use 'CTRL' + '0' key combination to reset the play speed to 1.
Code inside the bookmarklet is as follows:
javascript: function skipAds() {
const video = document.querySelector('video');

const skipAdsButton = document.querySelector('.ytp-ad-skip-button');
const smallAdsButton = document.querySelector('.ytp-ad-overlay-close-button');
const noSkipAdsButton = document.querySelector('.ytp-ad-preview-text');

if (skipAdsButton) {
video.playbackRate = video.playbackRate != 1 ? 1 : 10;

setTimeout(() => {
console.log('add skipped');
}, 500);

skipAdsButton.click();
} else if (smallAdsButton) {
smallAdsButton.click();
console.log('small popup add skipped');
} else if (noSkipAdsButton) {
video.playbackRate = video.playbackRate != 1 ? 1 : 10;
console.log('add played fast');
}
}

(function () {
console.log('Youtube ads skipper is loaded');

document.onkeyup = function (event) {
const video = document.querySelector('video');
let e = event || window.event;

if (e.ctrlKey) {
skipAds();
}

if (e.key === '+') {
video.playbackRate += 0.25;
console.log('Youtube video speed is: ' + video.playbackRate);
}

if (e.key === '-' && video.playbackRate > 0.25) {
video.playbackRate -= 0.25;
console.log('Youtube video speed is: ' + video.playbackRate);
}

if (e.key === '0' && e.ctrlKey) {
video.playbackRate = 1;
console.log('Youtube video speed is: ' + video.playbackRate);
}
};

setInterval(skipAds, 500);
})();