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EDIT: @OP I do not see a link to the source for the addon. I think a lot of users would be vary of installing closed-source addons. This is great, some YouTube

EDIT: @OP I do not see a link to the source for the addon. I think a lot of users would be vary of installing closed-source addons. This is great, some YouTube features are just so annoying. And I cannot disable them even though I pay for YouTube premium. An alternative to this is to add this to your ublock origin list: www.youtube.com##ytd-shelf-renderer.ytd-item-section-renderer it seems to be working, but I do not know if there are any other ramifications. (for instance, I use the rule https://www.google.*/xjs/* https://www.google.*/xjs/* to block the "people also search for..." on google.com and I recently realized that that breaks google maps-based search results)

oefrha 6y ago
> closed-source addons wget https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/downloads/file/3611176/youtube_distractfree-0.1-an+fx.xpi unzip youtube_distractfree-0.1-an+fx.xpi You'll find yt.css and ytt.js which aren't minimized/obfuscated. Browser extensions/addons are about as "closed source" as websites, or even less so in most cases (let's ignore wasm-powered websites or extensions for a second). Not linking to a GitHub repository doesn't mean it's "closed source"; conversely, linking to a GitHub repository is no guarantee that what you're getting is what's being linked to, or the extension won't be compromised in a future update.
- smichel17 6y ago
  It's nice that one can do this, but I wish I didn't need to. Mozilla could easily add a way to view the source online. This would be much more convenient and obvious that it's possible.
  - lights0123 6y ago
    I wish there was the same for Linux packages, there's been many times where I needed to reference a file that a package installed on another distro, but don't want to go through unzipping it and reading it, especially on mobile.
junkblocker 6y ago
This addon makes is super easy and convenient to inspect any addon's source code https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/crxviewer/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/crxviewer/
- milofeynman 6y ago
  While this is useful, I won't add add-ons if they don't have a GitHub/gitlab because the barrier to review is significantly more and I shouldn't need to look at the entire extensions source code every time it updates. Could they sneak in a release that's not on the GitHub page? Sure. But as long as I stick with the big add-ons I'll survive.

oefrha 6y ago

> closed-source addons wget https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/downloads/file/3611176/youtube_distractfree-0.1-an+fx.xpi unzip youtube_distractfree-0.1-an+fx.xpi You'll find yt.css and ytt.js which aren't minimized/obfuscated. Browser extensions/addons are about as "closed source" as websites, or even less so in most cases (let's ignore wasm-powered websites or extensions for a second). Not linking to a GitHub repository doesn't mean it's "closed source"; conversely, linking to a GitHub repository is no guarantee that what you're getting is what's being linked to, or the extension won't be compromised in a future update.

smichel17 6y ago
It's nice that one can do this, but I wish I didn't need to. Mozilla could easily add a way to view the source online. This would be much more convenient and obvious that it's possible.
- lights0123 6y ago
  I wish there was the same for Linux packages, there's been many times where I needed to reference a file that a package installed on another distro, but don't want to go through unzipping it and reading it, especially on mobile.

junkblocker 6y ago

This addon makes is super easy and convenient to inspect any addon's source code https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/crxviewer/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/crxviewer/

milofeynman 6y ago
While this is useful, I won't add add-ons if they don't have a GitHub/gitlab because the barrier to review is significantly more and I shouldn't need to look at the entire extensions source code every time it updates. Could they sneak in a release that's not on the GitHub page? Sure. But as long as I stick with the big add-ons I'll survive.