Skippy

Skippy, a Safari extension, automatically seeks past ads. Unlike other adblockers, it acts like an ad skipper to avoid adblocker detections.

Adblockers works by scanning the traffic which is generated by a site when you navigate the internet, they will compare it to a set of blacklists which decide if a URL might contain ads. This is why they work on any webpage, including YouTube which will fall back to not playing the ad. However, in a recent YouTube update they have begun blocking people who use ad-blockers to force them to disable it on YouTube. Adblockers have however found a way to bypass this, but how can we solve this problem by not blocking the ads? We can instead find out when an Ad is playing, and due to it's nature of just being a normal video, seek the video forward to where the ad is finished. Essentially "blocking" or "skipping" the ad. This was my motivating when developing and distributing Skippy, a new way of skipping YouTube ads