## YouTube

### SponsorBlock

Use the community-run SponsorBlock database for instant, exact segment skipping on videos others have already marked. The AI only runs when SponsorBlock has nothing. Privacy-preserving: your video is looked up by a hashed prefix, so the server never learns which video you watched.

Use SponsorBlock segments
Sponsor Unpaid / self-promotion Interaction reminders (like & subscribe) Intro / intermission Outro / endcards Preview / recap Filler / tangents Non-music section (music videos)

### Skipping behavior

Confidence thresholdⓘ 0.70 Show a brief toast in the player when a sponsor segment is skipped Block YouTube's first-party video ads betaⓘ Pick videos back up where you left offⓘ Debug loggingⓘ

### YouTube extras

Optional annoyance removers. Each is off by default.

Hide Shorts (feed shelves and sidebar) Hide end-screen cards and turn off autoplay of the next videoⓘ Auto-dismiss the “Continue watching?” pause prompt

## Ad blocking

### Filter rulesets

Each blocking list is a set of network rules. Turn them on or off individually here. Loaded is how many rules Chrome currently has active — if a list is on but shows nothing loaded, Chrome hit its per-session rule limit; restart the browser to clear it.

### Behavior & exceptions

Keep ad-blocked pages usableⓘ

Sites where ad blocking is paused. Add sites here, or use the popup's “Pause ad blocking here” toggle while on a site.

## AI & privacy

### Sponsor detection AI

Transcripts of the videos you watch are sent to the selected AI for analysis. Beyond that, only the anonymous diagnostics described under Privacy below ever leave your browser.

Provider

API key Get a key → Gateway URL Model (optional override)

Your key is stored locally in this browser and sent only to the provider you selected.

If primary is unavailableⓘ

Usage

AI enhancementsⓘ

### Privacy

Local-only modeⓘ Share anonymous diagnosticsⓘ

These diagnostics and daily usage counts are the only data Ad Sensei ever sends home. Transcripts go only to the AI provider you chose above, and everything else stays in this browser.

Auto-update filter listsⓘ

Filter lists: bundled with this version.

## Analytics

What Ad Sensei has handled for you. All-time totals, with today's count in the sub-line. Stored only in this browser.

0 YouTube interruptions 0 today
0 Web ads blocked 0 today
0 Trackers blocked 0 today
0 Cookie notices handled 0 today

### Skip performance

How long ad breaks actually take to clear, from the last 400 skips on this device. This is the number that decides whether blocking YouTube's first-party ads is worth the ad-blocker notices it provokes — under a couple of seconds and reactive skipping costs you almost nothing.

No skips recorded yet. Watch a few videos with ads and come back.

Typical — median
Slow ones — 90th percentile
Worst — slowest recorded
Over 5s — 0 skips measured

### Reset

Zero the lifetime and this-session counters above (and in the popup). Your settings are untouched.

## Activity & logs

Measuring…

What the features actually did — ads skipped, popups reviewed, cookie banners answered, selectors self-healed, videos analyzed. Newest first, last 300 events, stored only in this browser.

When | Feature | What happened | Where
--- | --- | --- | ---

Nothing yet — events appear here as the features act.

Every change made in the popup or settings, newest first. Stored only in this browser (last 500 changes; API keys are never recorded).

When | Setting | Change
--- | --- | ---

No settings changes recorded yet.

One entry per analyzed video, newest first, with its size in extension storage. The cache keeps the most recent 200 videos.

Analyzed | Video | Status | Segments | Provider | Size
--- | --- | --- | --- | --- | ---

No cached analyses yet.

## About

Ad Sensei —

Block ads and trackers across the web — plus in-video ads and AI-detected sponsor segments on YouTube.

Questions, bugs, or ideas? Contact support

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### Reset

Roll back a specific kind of data, or everything at once. These can’t be undone.

Feature settings All toggles & sliders back to defaults. Keeps your AI keys, paused sites, and stats.
Paused sites Clear the allowlist so ad blocking resumes everywhere.
Ad-detection feedback Forget every 👍/👎 you’ve given and any AI-learned selectors.
AI provider & keys Remove saved API keys and switch back to on-device AI.
Everything Factory reset — settings, paused sites, feedback, stats, history, and cache. Keep my AI API keys
This wipes all your data. Are you sure?