Autoskipping and keyboard shortcuts stopped working.

Author: z-TauCreated Jul 28, 2024Updated Aug 29, 2026

Sometime in the last couple of days Sponsorblock has stopped autoskipping segments, and the window that normally pops up offering for you to skip a segment manually no longer appears. In addition, the shortcuts (Enter) to skip a segment as well as the one to skip to the highlight (Ctrl-Enter) do nothing.

The segments are still showing up in the timeline, and the interface to create new segments or open the info popup work as before. Other shortcuts, such as to start/stop a segment, and to open the submission menu also still work. But currently the only way to skip a segment is to select the segment in the list (from the Sponsorblock info popup) and click the "skip segment" icon (double right arrows).

It's worth nothing that a Stylus script written to modify thumbnails on the Youtube homepage stopped working around the same time, so it's possible that YouTube made changes to their HTML that have affected both. I've tried disabling all extensions that modify YouTube specifically (as well as Stylus and uBlock Origin), but I'm still having the same issue. I have yet to try disabling all other extensions but I don't have any reason to believe they would be suddenly be causing the issue.

I am currently running the latest version of Microsoft Edge, on Windows 10, and I'm using the Edge version of Sponsorblock, rather than the Chrome one. If you need more info or anything else from me, just let me know.