Launched this week
Ad Fast-Forward for YouTube
Mute YouTube ads, black them out and play them at 16x
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Mute YouTube ads, black them out and play them at 16x
2 followers
Instead of blocking YouTube ads, Ad Fast-Forward plays them muted, blacked out and at 16x, so a 30-second ad is over in about 2 seconds. Long ads pause once for your Skip. No permissions, no data collected, open source.
Free
Launch Team
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Hi Product Hunt! I built Ad Fast-Forward because I wanted YouTube ads out of the way without a full ad blocker.
While an ad plays, the extension mutes it before the first frame, hides the picture and plays it at 16x, Chrome's maximum. Ads longer than about 65 seconds pause once so you can press Skip yourself: the extension never clicks for you.
It's deliberately small: it only runs on youtube.com, asks for no permissions, makes no network requests and stores nothing. The whole thing is under 400 lines you can read on GitHub.
One honest note: YouTube can change its rules at any time, and the README explains what that could mean. I'd love your feedback, and translations are very welcome!