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Ad Fast-Forward for YouTube

Mute YouTube ads, black them out and play them at 16x

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Instead of blocking YouTube ads, Ad Fast-Forward plays them muted, blacked out and at 16x, so a 30-second ad is over in about 2 seconds. Long ads pause once for your Skip. No permissions, no data collected, open source.

PH · launched Nov 8, 2026 · 1 upvote (top 65%) · 0 views

Niche: content and website blockers · 89 launches, 8 in the last 7 days ▼ -11% · Explore this niche →

Category and tags
  • Media & entertainment
  • B2C
  • Not AI
  • Commercial product
  • Chrome Extensions
  • Productivity
  • Open Source

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Could you build this?

Yes This is a browser extension that detects ad segments and changes playback rate, mute, and overlay state. It is mostly DOM and video-element manipulation, though it will need upkeep as YouTube changes its player.

Competitors

Other products that read as similar to this one : 411 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.

Attention rank: #162 of 412 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).

Launched 323 days after the earliest competitor.

  • SmartDuck · ph · 2026-10-18 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.60
  • Ad-Skipy · ph · 2026-11-03 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.59
  • No ads for Purple · ph · 2026-10-22 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.52
  • YouTube Pop Out Player - Floaty · ph · 2026-10-24 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.52
  • Blockium · ph · 2026-10-09 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.51
  • AdForge · ph · 2026-10-04 · 3 upvotes · similarity 0.49
  • QuizFirst · ph · 2026-11-08 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.49
  • CrossBlock · ph · 2026-10-07 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.49

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