As usual with questions in title, the answer is no. But IMO it’s a flawed comparison because no-one is going around and picking sponsored segments by hand and disabling them. So compared to other automatic tool, I’d say it works fine.

Edit: I have been enlightened in the comments that indeed there are such projects.

  • @taladar@sh.itjust.works
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    261 year ago

    no-one is going around and picking sponsored segments by hand

    Pretty sure the block lists used by ad-blockers are still created by hand.

    • skeletorfw
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      201 year ago

      Yeah, that is exactly how sponsorblock works: crowd-sourced manual identification of sponsor segments!

    • RQG
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      21 year ago

      I’m using a sponsor skipper that is crowd sourced. Every user of the extension can flag an ad in a video.

    • Max
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      21 year ago

      TIL. That’s an interesting craft!