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ISponsorBlockTV: SponsorBlock client for all YouTube TV clients

What HN thinks

A room full of people agreeing the tool works great, then arguing whether using it makes them freeloaders.

Works great, highly recommended
Users on Apple TV and other devices report it works reliably with little setup and lets you choose which segment types to skip.
Skipping sponsors hurts creators
Some argue sponsor segments pay creators and skipping them has consequences; others reply that ads are irritating, that they pay via Nebula or Patreon, or that creators' business model isn't their problem.
Title confuses with YouTube TV
Several note the name suggests Google's live IPTV service YouTube TV rather than YouTube apps on TVs, and the author reworded it.

Consensus: Most who have used it say it works very well; the main friction is the confusing YouTube TV naming and the ethics of skipping sponsors.

Recommended in the comments

SmartTube ↗ (product): Polished enough to pass for the official app with integrated segment skipping, though commenters flagged a past malware incident on the dev's machine.
Podly ↗ (tool): Suggested as an actively developed way to strip ads from podcasts, where crowdsourced timestamps fail due to dynamic ad insertion.
Nebula (service): Mentioned as a way to support creators while avoiding sponsor segments.

Summarised by Claude from the comment thread 5 days ago.

Points: 106
Comments: 44
Best rank: #11
Posted: 2026-11-08 by xnx
Category: Open source

sponsorblock youtube smart-tv python self-hosted ad-blocking chromecast

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