Intro/Outro cut/skip

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Introduction:

I know this is kind of a big one but if such a system would exist in a accessibly manner, many people would be less annoyed by it.

The problem:

There are many things in YouTube videos that one might wanna skip:

• Long intros/outros (especially when you're watching a 200 vid playlist with a 20s intro and 30s outro in every vid)
• Advertisements within the video (sponsor messages)

Concept 1 (Preferred)

Setup: Providing a UI to specify conditions and actions:

1. User opens UI somehow
2. User adds condition (When "channel" is "<id/name>")
3. User adds condition (When "playlist" is "<id>")
4. User adds condition (When "title" contains "game xy")
5. User uploads (?should just convert to base64 string) a image that represents a still frame from the video where the part to cut starts
6. User sets amount in seconds to skip forward when image matched
7. User sets slider with image similarity from 1-100%
8. ?Settings get saved somewhere for easy export/sharing of presets

Usage:

1. Video is being played
2. Conditions are being checked
3. If all conditions are true, start analyzing every (?n'th) frame
4. If frame matches provided still by at least similarity%, skip user set amounts of seconds

Concept 2 (per-video shared database):

• When video is played add button that marks beginning of unwanted part
• When button is pressed ask user how long the unwanted part was
• Save videoid + startime/endtime to global database
• Allow others to opt-in to the service
• When opted in auto skip matching video from each starttime to each endtime (needs moderation maybe or some other systems so only after a few reports a part is marked as unwanted?)

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There's now Sponsor Block which has a nice API, what do you think of adding that? ^^