SponsorBlock VS fonticons

SponsorBlock

SponsorBlock is an open-source crowdsourced browser extension to skip sponsor segments in YouTube videos.

fonticons

Web fonts made easy from the makers of Font Awesome

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2022-03-01

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2019-07-20

Skip sponsor segments, intro's, subscription begging, end cards... you name it! SponsorBlock review

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Category Popularity

0-100% (relative to SponsorBlock and fonticons)

fonticons

Security & Privacy

100 100%

Security & Privacy

0% 0

iPhone

0 0%

iPhone

100% 100

Ad Blockers

100 100%

Ad Blockers

0% 0

iPad

0 0%

iPad

100% 100

User comments

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Social recommendations and mentions

Based on our record, SponsorBlock seems to be a lot more popular than fonticons. While we know about 362 links to SponsorBlock, we've tracked only 2 mentions of fonticons. We are tracking product recommendations and mentions on various public social media platforms and blogs. They can help you identify which product is more popular and what people think of it.

SponsorBlock mentions (362)

De-Googling, So Far
> I'm still upset about the recent trend of authors placing "sponsor segments" embedded in their videos […] ; I wish paying for Premium automatically skipped these segments too, but oh well. May I introduce you to SponsorBlock: . - Source: Hacker News / 4 days ago
YouTube seems to once again be rolling out its widely hated new web redesign
In addition to Unhook, I also use SponsorBlock[1] and Return YouTube Dislike [2]. While SponsorBlock is something that some people might not want/need, I find Return YouTube Dislike to be particularly useful because the dislike/like ratio is a valuable data point for a video I'm about to watch. [1] https://sponsor.ajay.app/. - Source: Hacker News / 13 days ago
The creator economy can't rely on Patreon
You are one of today's 10,000. https://sponsor.ajay.app/ And if you have android: https://github.com/polymorphicshade/Tubular. - Source: Hacker News / 3 months ago
Ask HN: What have you built with LLMs?
> I worked on a chrome extension a few weeks ago that skips sponsorship sections in YouTube videos by reading through the transcript You might want to connect that to SponsorBlock https://sponsor.ajay.app/. - Source: Hacker News / 4 months ago
YouTube did not slow down adblock users. Adblock devs admit to problem
While this doesn't completely solve the problem, SponsorBlock [0] makes it much more tolerable when watching videos in your browser. [0]: https://sponsor.ajay.app. - Source: Hacker News / 5 months ago

fonticons mentions (2)

Public CDNs Are Useless and Dangerous
> bundle it with something like https://fortawesome.com/ Using FA as a CDN is not GDPR compliant, either. Generally speaking using any public CDN is not GDPR compliant. If you _could_ self host the files, then you can not meet the necessity test required for any of the relevant legal basis in GDPR art 6(1). Google Fonts and FA are worse, because the personal data is shipped off wholesale to the USA. Neither FA or... - Source: Hacker News / almost 2 years ago
Public CDNs Are Useless and Dangerous
+1 It's not even clear if using Google Fonts is GDPR compliant (since you're leaking the fact that your visitor has visited your website): https://github.com/google/fonts/issues/1495 Even if you do want to use your own custom pretty font on your site, just self host it, or bundle it with something like https://fortawesome.com/. - Source: Hacker News / almost 2 years ago