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SponsorBlockServer
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ajayyy / SponsorBlockServer

SponsorBlockServer

Skip YouTube video sponsors (server side portion)

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1.1KGitHub stars
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Skip YouTube video sponsors (server side portion)

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Nov 7–Nov 14 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/14/2026, 5:04:57 PM UTC.

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HN mentions by year4 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2019-08-23 18:50:11 UTC to 2026-07-03 23:28:50 UTC.

0122019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments20192020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments20222023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2027-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments. Incomplete calendar period.2026*

* An incomplete calendar period is marked with an outlined bar. Its count is not directly comparable with a full period.

Counts come from the repository’s dated source evidence. Index cutoff: 2026-11-02 08:16:59 UTC.

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PeriodStart (UTC)End (exclusive, UTC)MentionsSubmissionsComments
20192019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC202
20202020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20212021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20222022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20232023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20242024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20252025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
2026 (partial)2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2027-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101

What Hacker News says

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> We attempted responsible disclosure by emailing dev@ajay.app multiple times on July 3 and 4, 2026, but received no response. SponsorBlock is run by one guy. I consider this very irresponsible. You barely waited, and accessing (what you consider to be) the private data of 82k users is not at all necessary to prove a vulnerability. Luckily, most of these aren't really vulnerabilities. But I'll go over the claims: > This allowed us to enumerate and download almost the entire user database. No. Sponsorblock says it has 13 million users, so 82k is not anywhere near "the entire user database". > 8NpFUCMr2Gq4cy4UrUJPBfGBbRQudhJ8zzex8Gq44RYDywLt3UtbbfDap3KPDbcS This is not a YouTube api key. It's an api key for a SponsorBlock API route that acts as a proxy to fetch information about a YouTube video. > AIzaSyA8eiZmM1FaDVjRy-df2KTyQ_vz_yYM39w Thi
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s is an api key accessing some internal YouTube APIs. It's documented in many places and belongs to YouTube Android. > PostgreSQL connection: postgresql://sponsorblock:pw@127.0.0.1:5432/sponsorTimes You believe these are real creds? > Admin password hash, global salt, Patreon integration keys, webhook secrets were exposed in repository files From the CI and test configs...? > High - Public Grafana Dashboard Why do you consider this "High" or "Critical"? > POST /api/skipSegments and POST /api/voteOnSponsorTime endpoints accepted submissions without proper user verification This is intentional. The extension generates a UUID and uses that as a user ID. > Batch queries revealed additional sensitive fields including userAgent. What is sensitive about these fields? https://github.com/ajayyy/SponsorBlockServer/blob/1dd7a32092... Sorry to say, but prompting some AI model and forwarding the results does not make you a security researcher.
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