IDEA: 1. Skip intro & outro - X & Y seconds 2. Skip common phrases

[EvocativeOlash]

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Repetitive video intros on videos are annoying, most videos can have the first 30 seconds skipped with no ill effect. Perhaps even add an option to skip X seconds of the end as well to make playlists less annoying.

Also save your ears since many video creators have loud music during intro/outro sequences. Videos have been padded since the time youtube started favoring 10+ minute videos.

[ImprovedTube]

Thank you, there are several extensions allowing to skip seconds or percentage.
(We tend to work on things first, that don't seem not to exist yet.)

• Common phrases on youtube and in youtube categories can be identified & skipped by transcript
  • Common phrases, slogans, etc, per channel can also be indentifies & skipped
    https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1awdy0UvhaAz3ll1eexRSxNTmtpGbdBUYjgeiBDkoJI8/edit#gid=1433029918

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• skipping intro/outro

  • And we could integrate data like! SB / [NB]
    (https://github.com/andrewzlee/NeuralBlock) etc. (Besides Sponsorblock's definition of intro might be animation only/shorter than yours Skip Intro/Outro Credits  #927 )

  • To identify intro&outro channel-wide habits, we could also check if there are typical durations of intro and outro length per channel / category in the top 5000 channels. Based on sponsorblock data or manually testing new and old videos from the same channel.
    

  • skipping intro: Bold automatic/experimental approach, for getting to the gist: (not what you said :D)
    A rule of thumb is that that the first 30% are 'intro' contentually https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/the-wadsworth-constant . so this could be refined as follows:
    Video will can start at high speed 3x and volume spikes capped (scalped).
    Then gradually slow down to to reach normal speed at 30%.
    This formular can be tuned and adjusted by current category or channel,
    (or be dynamic per video, considering keywords in speech/captions, linguistic analysis of captions.)