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Ask HN: What browser extensions are a must-have in 2021?
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Re: Ask HN: What browser extensions are a must-have in 2021?
#252Earlier quoted context omitted.
Youtube already has ads. Yes, Youtube's revenue model is atrocious for creators, but running your own ads on top of their ads is really not the solution. LinusTechTips is the most egregious example of that. After sitting through two Youtube ads, I have to look at their preroll and postroll for sponsorships, as well as a midroll for another sponsor or their merch store. It just gets tiring after a while. I can't imagi…
I don't know, I look at it almost exactly in the opposite way. I used to block Youtube ads with uBlock and now use Youtube Premium, and ads that are baked into videos by creators themselves don't bother me. The ads that are baked into the video don't have tracking code because they're just part of the video file, they aren't an extra javascript burden, often the sound/transition is far better and not so jarring-- rea…
How does blocking such an in-video ad hurt the creator? If there's no JavaScript, there's presumably no way of tracking "views", right?
It seems like the only harm is that I won't see/click the ad. But I think anyone who runs an ad-blocker is already the sort of person who won't click ads. Even if someone advertises something I'm super excited by, I'll want to take a few days to research the product - and I'm not going to go dig up the sponsored link when I decide to buy in.
Re: Ask HN: What browser extensions are a must-have in 2021?
#253Every time I setup a new computer/OS I always put Ublock and adblock plus (yes I use both) Also have my own extensions, in particular one that dumps all the active tab titles with urls for future lookup and a YT one that hides the homepage crap so I don't get distracted whenever I go on there to do something.
Using another ad blocker along uBO leads to worse results than using uBO alone, I keep warning people about this, see https://twitter.com/gorhill/status/1033706103782170625 >.
My experience has been fine, is possible memory performance the main concern? I have been pretty happy with the ad blocking performance itself, seems to be working right.
edit: I did check out your GitHub I see now why what you're saying has weight, okay I will go with just UBO.
Re: Ask HN: What browser extensions are a must-have in 2021?
#254Earlier quoted context omitted.
uMatrix is also deprecated. https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uMatrix-issues/issues/291#is...
This is really sad. I hope somebody will take on its development!
uBlock Origin's advanced user mode does the same thing. Sometimes a bit more complicated (have to also add block rules), but I can see why he deprecated it. Why maintain two extensions that end up doing the same thing?
Re: Ask HN: What browser extensions are a must-have in 2021?
#255Earlier quoted context omitted.
Youtube already has ads. Yes, Youtube's revenue model is atrocious for creators, but running your own ads on top of their ads is really not the solution. LinusTechTips is the most egregious example of that. After sitting through two Youtube ads, I have to look at their preroll and postroll for sponsorships, as well as a midroll for another sponsor or their merch store. It just gets tiring after a while. I can't imagi…
I don't know, I look at it almost exactly in the opposite way. I used to block Youtube ads with uBlock and now use Youtube Premium, and ads that are baked into videos by creators themselves don't bother me. The ads that are baked into the video don't have tracking code because they're just part of the video file, they aren't an extra javascript burden, often the sound/transition is far better and not so jarring-- rea…
>I would much rather have a creator do sponsor spots in their video content than ever get served a javascript ad from some ad company.
Me too, I just think it's gotta be an either or.
Re: Ask HN: What browser extensions are a must-have in 2021?
#256Earlier quoted context omitted.
If you use uBlock Origin, you shouldn't need it because prevents the ad from playing at all.
Hmm I def see ads on YouTube, is there maybe a setting I need to enable or ruleset? (I use the default )
Re: Ask HN: What browser extensions are a must-have in 2021?
#257Earlier quoted context omitted.
In case you didn't know, and for anyone else, Auto Tab Discard has a permanent whitelist. There's a menu option to add a domain to the whitelist, and you can also add regular expressions. It's also on the preferences page of course.
> add a domain to the whitelist That's the problem though. I want to whitelist single URLs for particular YouTube channel video lists, not the whole of YouTube.
I understand. I also mentioned regular expressions. It's not as convenient as a menu option, but it's not too difficult and it works. For instance, you can add this rule to the whitelist to not discard any YouTube channel video lists: re:https://www.youtube.com/.*/videos
You said particular YouTube channels, so in that case you can just put the full URL for those channels, e.g. re:https://www.youtube.com/channel/SomeChannelABC123/videos
Re: Ask HN: What browser extensions are a must-have in 2021?
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I kind of object to this because it's directly messing with creators' efforts. Obviously I'm not telling people not to use it, but I think it's worth thinking about the channels/creators you enjoy - especially if they've been demonetized by Youtube.
Youtube already has ads. Yes, Youtube's revenue model is atrocious for creators, but running your own ads on top of their ads is really not the solution. LinusTechTips is the most egregious example of that. After sitting through two Youtube ads, I have to look at their preroll and postroll for sponsorships, as well as a midroll for another sponsor or their merch store. It just gets tiring after a while. I can't imagi…
Yeah at some point, they're running more ads for sponsors because they want more money. Add another sponsor? Increase pay for their employees, buy new equipment etc. But at what point do you say "nah u don't want to support you THAT much, I won't watch the sponsored video"? Like, YouTube already pays them from YouTube premium subscriptions, at what point is the creator now just being greedy?
Re: Ask HN: What browser extensions are a must-have in 2021?
#259Some less obvious ones for Chromium based browsers I use:
- Privacy Redirect [redirects you on the fly to custom frontedns for popular services like YT, Reddit, Wiki, etc.]
- Buster: Captcha Solver For Humans [solves captchas for me]
- WebRTC Control [I don't like an idea of leaking IP over WebRTC when I don't use it]
- Change Geolocation [forces a certain coordinates as a response to websites asking about your location]
- Disable HTML5 Autoplay [kind of obvious]
- PocketTube: Youtube Subscription Manager [I can't find anything on YT in the channels I subscribe to without it!]
Re: Ask HN: What browser extensions are a must-have in 2021?
#260Sponsorblock for Youtube: users mark segments of videos that have sponsored content, and the extension skips over them. It also skips past introductions and interaction reminders.
I kind of object to this because it's directly messing with creators' efforts. Obviously I'm not telling people not to use it, but I think it's worth thinking about the channels/creators you enjoy - especially if they've been demonetized by Youtube.
Don’t most people just spam right arrow to skip through sponsor segments anyway? For me, sponsorblock just automates this process. As others mentioned, it’s pretty granule and has a lot of options for things like intros, intermissions, etc in addition to sponsor segments.