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The phrase "allow users to skip" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing features in software, applications, or processes that give users the option to bypass certain steps or content.
Example: "The new app update will allow users to skip the tutorial if they are already familiar with the features."
Alternatives: "enable users to bypass" or "permit users to omit".
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Devices that allow users to skip ads, such as the TiVo box, may drive advertisers towards other media.
The recorders will, however, still be able to store large libraries of programming indefinitely and allow users to skip manually through recorded commercials in 30-second increments.
Many industry executives greatly fear the devices because they allow users to skip commercials in the shows they record by using a button that jumps ahead 30 seconds at a time.
The former Wall Street Journal reporter Jessica Lessin reported on Monday that Apple "wants to strike deals with cable companies like Time Warner Cable to allow cable subscribers to watch television using an Apple device," and that it is also talking to the networks about a feature "that would allow users to skip ads".
Such phones — which are a mainstream version of Internet phones now available as PC software — would allow users to skip long distance charges.
The feature is great for exploring new songs, allowing users to get exposure to a variety of music they haven't heard while still retaining control over what they'd like to hear next (radio services like Pandora, while great for discovery, can still be frustrating because they only allow users to skip a limited number of songs).
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But a search for specific video camera signatures allows users to skip the Web site and view the camera image outside its intended context.
It matches songs on a customer's computer to a master database on Google's servers, allowing users to skip the laborious task of uploading every single song.
For the Best in Show award, the employees chose the Hopper, a digital video recorder sold by Dish Network that allows users to skip ads on prime-time network television shows.
That changed decisively at the end of 2010 when the site introduced TrueView, a system that allowed users to skip almost two-thirds of its adverts easily; the innovation being that Google could now charge much more for the ones people did watch to the end.
NFC could also make Bluetooth easier to use by allowing users to skip the complicated "pairing" sequence by which devices first have to be introduced.
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