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You've Seen This Intro Enough. Start Where It Gets Good.
Set a start time once per site and every video — every episode, every rewatch — jumps straight past the intro.
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- Runs locally
By Virgil Dean · Updated
Sound familiar?
The everyday friction this page exists to remove.
The same 47 seconds, every time
The intro you liked the first time is a toll by the tenth. Some players give you a Skip button; the ones you actually watch don't, or hide it until the recap is half over.
Dragging the bar is a tax you pay forever
Grab the progress bar, overshoot, land in a spoiler, nudge back — a two-second interaction you repeat for every episode of every season of every show.
Your muscle memory knows the timestamp
You already know this show starts at 1:20. The player doesn't, and it will not remember tomorrow either.
The fix, step by step
From capture to finished image in 4 steps.
Grant access to the site
When you first use it on a site, allow the extension there — per-site by default, so it acts only where you want it.
Find the moment
Watch once, note where the content starts — 1:20, 0:45, wherever the intro ends.
Set the start time
Save that offset for the site. Every video on it now begins there.
Just watch
Next episode, next week, next season — playback opens at your time. Change or remove the rule whenever the show changes its intro.
Overview#
Skip intro is the smallest feature that saves the most seconds: the title sequence you have seen a hundred times, the recap of the episode you watched yesterday, the course jingle before lesson 14. Players that offer a Skip button have solved it; players that don't have made dragging the progress bar a reflex.
This tool makes the jump automatic. It is PlayFrom, built in this library: set a start time once for a site and every video on it begins there — the extension seeks to your timestamp when playback starts, waits out pre-roll ads on major players without touching them, and scopes itself to the sites you actually granted. It is not an ad blocker, and DRM-protected players that refuse seeking are stated as the limit they are.
The extension's own page documents the rule model, the permissions and every player quirk; this page exists because most people meet the problem as two words: skip intro.
What you can do
What this workflow looks like with the extension installed — as implemented today.
Per-site start times
Set an offset for a site once — 1:20, for example — and every video on that site begins at 1:20 from then on: new episodes, rewatches, everything.
Every episode, automatically
No Skip button to hunt for, no progress bar to drag. The jump happens when playback starts, before the intro can begin.
It waits out ads, properly
It recognizes ad states on major players and makes the jump after them — it is not an ad blocker and never touches the ads themselves.
Scopes where it applies
Give it access to the sites you choose. Rules apply where you granted them, and the extension does nothing on pages you did not include.
Synced rules
Your start times live in Chrome's sync storage — they follow your Chrome profile across machines, up to the roughly 50-rule cap.
Who it is for
The situations this task page is written for.
Daily series and sitcoms
The 60–90 second title sequence you have seen a hundred times, gone from every episode.
Rewatching a season
Second viewings skip recaps that exist only for people who forgot last week — you didn't.
Video courses with repeated intros
Lesson 14 does not need the course jingle again; start every lecture at the content.
Talks and podcast clips
Channels with long wind-ups begin at the point you actually came for.
How it compares
An honest look at where this tool fits — and where other options fit better.
| Criterion | Skip Intro | The player's own Skip button | Dragging the progress bar |
|---|---|---|---|
| Works on players without a Skip button | Yes | No — the button is the only way | Yes |
| Remembers between episodes | Yes — one rule per site | No | No — every video, again |
| Jumps before the intro plays | Yes — at playback start | Often mid-intro, whenever it appears | After the intro started |
| No overshoot into spoilers | Yes — lands on the exact timestamp | N/A | A constant risk |
| Blocks ads | No — deliberately not | No | No |
Our take: A native Skip button is the best tool on the players that have it — this exists for the many that don't. Dragging the bar works once; a saved start time works until the show changes its intro.
Limitations & known boundaries
What this extension does not do, and the cases where results may be imperfect. Stated plainly so you can decide before installing.
- Works on standard HTML5 video players. Custom players that hide video inside a closed Shadow DOM or draw to a canvas cannot be found, and DRM-protected players may refuse to seek.
- Live streams cannot be seeked and are skipped silently.
- It is not an ad blocker: it recognizes ad states on major players and waits them out, but never skips, mutes or removes ads.
- If the start time is at or past a video's duration, nothing happens for that video.
- Rules sync through Chrome and cap at roughly 50; pages already open when access was granted need one refresh.
- If a site's own scripts force playback back after the jump, the site wins — the extension does not fight it.
Frequently asked questions
Questions people search for before choosing a skip intro.
How do I automatically skip intros?
Set a start time per site in this extension: give it access to the site, save the offset where content begins (say 1:20), and every video on that site starts there automatically.
Which sites does it work on?
Any site using a standard HTML5 video player that you have granted access to — streaming services with DRM-protected players may refuse the seek, and live streams are skipped because they cannot be seeked at all.
Is this an ad blocker?
No. It jumps the playhead to your chosen start time. On players with pre-roll ads it recognizes the ad state and jumps after the ad — it never blocks, skips or mutes the ads themselves.
Does it work on Netflix?
Where the player is a standard HTML5 video and DRM allows seeking, yes. Some DRM-protected players refuse programmatic seeks on protected content — those will keep their intros, and the extension will not pretend otherwise.
Is it free?
Yes — free to install from the Chrome Web Store and free to use, no account.
Where are my rules stored?
In Chrome's sync storage for your profile — they follow you across machines signed into the same profile, capped at roughly 50 rules.
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Editorial disclosure
We are the developers of the extensions documented on this site. This page describes the shipped version as we built and tested it — including its limitations — and was fact-checked on . Claims are based on our own testing of released builds; where third-party tools are named, their capabilities are described as documented by their publishers.
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