A Clever Solution to YouTube’s Ad Overload: The Rise of Speed-Up Extensions

The Ad Frustration and the Genius Workaround

Keros
2 min readDec 1, 2023

YouTube’s increasing ad load has led to widespread user frustration, particularly since Google’s crackdown on ad blockers. This frustration gave birth to an ingenious solution: Ad Speedup, a Chrome extension. Unlike traditional ad blockers, Ad Speedup doesn’t remove ads. Instead, it plays them at 16 times their normal speed, reducing a 30-second ad to under two seconds. This clever workaround, available in the Chrome Web Store…

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Keros

Enthusiastic programmer and tech aficionado. Loves crafting friendly, concise articles to share the wonders of technology and other things i like.