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"Return YouTube Dislike" Chrome Extension Injecting Ads
- snug 11mo agoThey've added a full page ad that opens a new browser randomly and injecting ads directly into youtube. I added some photos on this reddit post https://www.reddit.com/r/youtube/comments/1of2k7s/return_youtube_dislike_injecting_ads_directly/ https://www.reddit.com/r/youtube/comments/1of2k7s/return_you...
- sieep 11mo agoThanks for sharing. I haven't noticed anything on the Firefox extension under the same name. ublock may be stopping it. I can investigate and post what I find here in a few hours.
- snug 11mo agoUpdate from the dev: > Unfortunately the extension requires quite a large database (~15TB) - and it costs money. > The ad\changelog was supposed to show only on browser restart - i.e. be much less intrusive > The idea behind paid features was also to cover the costs (since donations became smaller than the hosting costs). > I messed up with implementation though. > Sorry. I do feel for the developer, and I am not anti asking for donations, and the full page pop up on browser restart I don't think is terrible, but it would have been better to maybe have a changelog and have a donation button. The ads injected directly into youtube make me lose a lot of trust
- ekjhgkejhgk 11mo agoI don't feel for the developer. If donations is smaller than hosting costs, just stop putting time into it. It's a stupid gimmick anyway.
- andromedaM31 11mo agoI consider it to be more valuable than a "stupid gimmick", even if more in message than in direct utility - it fights to retain peer-voting and crowdsourced evaluation on the quality of online information, which is something that seems to be dwindling away with each passing year.
- gdulli 11mo agoI tried to make Twitter and Reddit more usable as they started to enshittify, but after a certain point I realized it was a fundamentally losing battle and gave them up altogether. Those sites were not one or two features away from becoming usable again, the rot was more comprehensive. Today in hindsight, I can see that moving on was the only way to go.
- ekjhgkejhgk 11mo agoCorrect, that's why I called it a stupid gimmick. You're trying to fight them on their turf, it'll consume your life and they will wipe you out in a second if they feel like it.
- Tadpole9181 11mo agoThe problem is that the number you see is pointless. There's a limited demographic who cares about the dislike numbers so much they go out and install a browser extension, which in then biases how they react to a video. It's basically an echo chamber extension. Not sure what you mean by "fight back", either. Google 100% could not care less if you install this extension. They aren't bringing it back unless the division's leadership has a change of heart on whatever internal goals they wanted to achieve by removing it.
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- ekjhgkejhgk 11mo agoYou gotta be a bit short sighted to imagine that the kind of people that would download an extension would accept ads. On the other hand, you also have to be a bit short sighted to be installed gargabage like "an extension so you can downvote" lol.
- snug 11mo agoYou can downvote youtube videos without the extension, the extension just shows how many people downvoted a video since youtube took that visibility away a few years ago. It does help when there are shitty video recommendations and can ignore videos that have a bad ratio
- tcfhgj 11mo agobad ratio can be caused by a lot of things
- asacrowflies 11mo agoStill useful
- sli 11mo agoI'm skeptical that it's of any use considering it's only going to be installed by people who specifically want to dislike. It seems more likely that the like/dislike ratio is going to be heavily skewed towards dislikes just by the stated purpose of the plugin and who it appeals to.
- HumanBojack 11mo agoI don't think the extension is installed by people that wanna dislike, rather by people that wanna see the dislike count. I used to have it since it's very useful to see if something like a tutorial is a scam. Also if I remember correctly, the extension was created before youtube completely removed the count, and it scraped the actual value from youtube to add it to the db while the count still was available
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- QuadmasterXLII 11mo agoI highly recommend following the official tutorial to create a browser extension for your preferred browser, and just making any changes to websites there instead of installing extensions made by someone else. For example, removing youtube shorts is like five lines of code in my personal extension. The rate at which published browser extensions turn into malware has escalated from “oh that’s concerning” to “How many times do I have to teach you this lesson old man”
- gruez 11mo agoYou don't even need to make your own extension, which requires a bunch of boilerplate and docs. Userscripts (eg. greasemoney) or userstyles (eg. stylus) is often all you need, and much more straightforward to make.
- QuadmasterXLII 11mo agoIs there a browser with native userscripts? because if I install a userscript extension, its just going to get push-updated to add malware like OP
- eviks 11mo agoHow would your tutorial help get voting information from other users?
- mrkramer 11mo agoAt this point it would be better to start building and working on new web video hosting platform than to cry over feature that is most likely never coming back.
- Bratmon 11mo agoThe users of this extension balked at paying for the upkeep of a 15TB database of (user, like) mappings. Do you really think they're gonna financially support an entire video hosting platform?
- mrkramer 11mo agoI meant if you don't like YouTube, try to make an alternative. Prototype it and look for venture capital.
- Bratmon 11mo agoI assume you wouldn't put "Our target users are people who started swearing at us when we asked for enough money to pay for a single 15TB database" in your pitch deck.
- brycewray 11mo agoDiscussion here also... https://github.com/Anarios/return-youtube-dislike/issues/1232 https://github.com/Anarios/return-youtube-dislike/issues/123...