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Re: Show HN: Search YouTube without stopping the video, and make your own playlists

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What probably annoys me the most about youtube, is that there is no elegant way to queue the next song easily and without a few second of 'buffer' between them.

They used to have instant playlists, where you press a (+) button on a video and it would add it to your queue - I have no idea why they removed this feature. That combined with the mess that is 'next video' and relevant videos has really paved the way for sites like SoundCloud to dominate online music.

Re: Show HN: Search YouTube without stopping the video, and make your own playlists

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I don't think you have the option to say "this app needs Read and Change for just this one domain," it's pretty much an all or nothing sort of deal. This one uses it to edit the page on YouTube, so it has to require it for all.

I'm genuinely curious - where did you get this idea from? It's definitely not the case, so I'm wondering how you arrived at it.

If you install an otherwise-compatible Greasemonkey user script in Chrome without appropriately adjusting the metadata, it will default to requesting access to all domains. I think these were more commonly used in the earlier days of Chrome, and contributed to this misunderstanding.

Re: Show HN: Search YouTube without stopping the video, and make your own playlists

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post #7

I mean YouTube UI is a disgrace really, what is it about big companies that stop them from being able to do design properly (even Apple post Jobs is starting to experience this).

This is my personal experience as a YouTube user: - There are these weirdly looking fixed (Googleish) bars for no other reason than to steal my screen space. - Recommendations are mostly awful (10 things that will shock you!) or videos I have already watched. - The subscription to a whole channel is a dumb concept. I usually care only about specific series of videos, not the whole channel. Example: New movie reviews,…

> - Recommendations are mostly awful (10 things that will shock you!) or videos I have already watched.

if you're not logged in (personally I only log into gmail in a private tab), you just get the related videos, which are (imho) fine.

if you're logged in, yeah. useless.

> - I can only use YouTube on my Desktops because that's where the ad blocker works.

Firefox for Android has extensions, among which uBlock Origin, which blocks the youtube ads.

I also have some thingy to block the ads in the Youtube app but that's an Xposed-mod, which requires a rooted device (if yours is rooted, Xposed is highly recommended, many useful mods for many apps)

Re: Show HN: Search YouTube without stopping the video, and make your own playlists

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don't think you have the option to say "this app needs Read and Change for just this one domain," it's pretty much an all or nothing sort of deal. This one uses it to edit the page on YouTube, so it has to require it for all.

I'm genuinely curious - where did you get this idea from? It's definitely not the case, so I'm wondering how you arrived at it.

For what it's worth, the last time I worked on an extension was in 2012, and a friend did most of the work setting it all up, I just wrote some of the code. This was the impression that I was under, but apparently it isn't the case.

Re: Show HN: Search YouTube without stopping the video, and make your own playlists

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post #67
post #16

On the subject of YouTube related chrome extensions, I created one called WikiTube a couple of years ago. Its super simple, and just adds relevant YouTube videos to the top of Wikipedia pages. I'm quite happy with it https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/wikitube/aneddidib...

This is awesome. By the way is it open sourced as well? Would love to learn from this.

I never got around to putting it on github, but its very easy to look at the original source code of any chrome extension, its not protected at all. By all means look through the code, there's not a lot of it :)

Re: Show HN: Search YouTube without stopping the video, and make your own playlists

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I opened a PR to limit permissions to youtube.com; hopefully it will get merged: https://github.com/darajava/youtube-smooth/pull/24

Thanks!

Any idea when you will push the new version to the Chrome Web Store?

Re: Show HN: Search YouTube without stopping the video, and make your own playlists

#130
Out of curiosity....since ad injection is bad, what is the most common revenue model behind very popular extensions? Donations never make much money, and only ad blockers with enormous install bases can use the extortion model. Does anyone know how extensions make money if they aren't injecting ads?
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