Show HN: YouTube Search Fixer – Firefox addon that removes unrelated suggestions
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Re: Show HN: YouTube Search Fixer – Firefox addon that removes unrelated suggestions
#2Hey all, it's very basic problem that I aimed to fix with my first ever extension. I designed it to fix YouTube search. It removes "For you", "Related to your search" and other distractions from your results. It also fine tunes some visual interface elements and aims to synchronize the design language.
I realize there will always be bugs despite my best attempt so I would be greatly appreciative of your suggestions and critiques. Both are equally welcome.
Re: Show HN: YouTube Search Fixer – Firefox addon that removes unrelated suggestions
#3EDIT: @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
Re: Show HN: YouTube Search Fixer – Firefox addon that removes unrelated suggestions
#4Hey all, it's very basic problem that I aimed to fix with my first ever extension. I designed it to fix YouTube search. It removes "For you", "Related to your search" and other distractions from your results. It also fine tunes some visual interface elements and aims to synchronize the design language. I realize there will always be bugs despite my best attempt so I would be greatly appreciative of your suggestions a…
As other commenter mentioned there's no source, though under Versions it states "Source code released under MIT/X11 License". Do you have a link?
Re: Show HN: YouTube Search Fixer – Firefox addon that removes unrelated suggestions
#5EDIT: @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…
> 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
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.
Re: Show HN: YouTube Search Fixer – Firefox addon that removes unrelated suggestions
#6The problem with YouTube nowadays is that it's mission isn't to get you to watch something, it's to get you to watch something else. Pause the video? See suggestions. Start watching video? See suggestions.
So I appreciate anything that reduces the amount of suggestions that appear to me.
Re: Show HN: YouTube Search Fixer – Firefox addon that removes unrelated suggestions
#7EDIT: @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…
This addon makes is super easy and convenient to inspect any addon's source code
Re: Show HN: YouTube Search Fixer – Firefox addon that removes unrelated suggestions
#8Hey all, apologies my internet was in error I just check the comment section. Also sorry, I did not link the repository earlier I missed it but no worries, I have provided all files of addon here for you now: https://gitlab.com/phoennix/youtubesearchfix
Thanks for all the kind words.
Re: Show HN: YouTube Search Fixer – Firefox addon that removes unrelated suggestions
#9EDIT: @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…
This addon makes is super easy and convenient to inspect any addon's source code https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/crxviewer/
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.
Re: Show HN: YouTube Search Fixer – Firefox addon that removes unrelated suggestions
#10The problem with YouTube nowadays is that it's mission isn't to get you to watch something, it's to get you to watch something else . Pause the video? See suggestions. Start watching video? See suggestions. So I appreciate anything that reduces the amount of suggestions that appear to me.
I've also noticed that. It's very annoying to press space to pause the video, have a giant pop up cover the whole thing, and then having focus switched so that now space deals with the suggestion instead of resuming the video.