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But the difference is, since it can't touch the page itself like extensions, you can't get rid of the ad space if it's pre occupied as empty space.
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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.
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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 goi…
And, I can't tell you what the difference is- it seems it would be the same- but sponsor spots in audio-only podcasts bother me more than ones in videos. Maybe it's the length. The majority of the content I watch keeps sponsor stuff short- but the podcasts I listen to make a 5-10 minute infomercial out of them, so I do skip them more often in podcasts
As far as whether I think there's any harm to creators from skipping sponsored spots, it's possible that whatever statistics/analysis creators have access to on the platform might inform what they're able to tell their sponsors as far as views/etc. - but I don't know to what extent that goes
Video Speed Controller lets you speed up any HTML5 video. No more sitting through videos at 1x speed! Chrome: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/video-speed-contro... Firefox: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/videospeed/ Even for a site like YouTube that has built-in speed control settings, it's still useful since (1) you can make the speed exceed 2x and (2) you can use keyboard shortcuts to tune…
- Sidebery: Vertical tabs, personally feels it's better then TreeStyleTabs
- Enhancer For Youtube
- Custom Scrollbars
- Decentraleyes: Use local javascript libs over remote ones
- Dark Reader: Dark mode for pages without dark mode
- To DeepL
Lots of good extensions in this thread. Here are some optional extensions I like: - Twemex - https://twemex.app/ - Adds a really useful sidebar to Twitter. - Recipe Filter - https://github.com/sean-public/RecipeFilter - Focuses recipes front and center on food blogs - Notion Boost - https://gourav.io/notion-boost - Adds a lot of really nice features to Notion - Tampermonkey - https://www.tampermonkey.net/ - Lets you…
I made the recipe-filter extension you mentioned, which has the source available on GitHub at the link you gave and thus is trivial for others to fork, modify, install locally, and so on. All extensions wind up as an archive with JS that one could modify, but I've made this one especially transparent.
With your ExtensionPay, I could add a check to see if someone has a subscription for some new features I'm working on, but it feels like something's missing checking in that code into a public repo with no server necessary for the processing the extension requires. The trust is handled in the JS running on the users' browsers.
> As Mozilla recommends, it's better to focus on making a good product for the majority of users that won't hack your extension.
It's fairly popular (a bit over 58K active users) and someone already forked+modified the extension for another browser. It seems like if I charge some amount for the new features, it would be trivial for someone to fork it, remove the subscription check, and distribute it as a new extension. Similarly, they could add their own payment system and charge for the clone by changing just a few lines.
As it stands, giving it away for free means there's nothing at stake. Adding a payment check in plain JS feels like it would generally work but incentivizes other putting in the time to crack it or clone it for profit and there's no great way back from that point.
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> Honestly, who uses bookmarks any more? They just turn into a bloated to-do list, hundreds of links you'll forget about until one day you try them and the domain no longer exists Use a service like pinboard and they instead turn into a searchable archive of things you like, archived so that they don't disappear/change. Sorta like a curated personal search engine.
I want an offline solution for this. What's the point of saving content from the Internet on the same Internet? You lose your connection and immediately lose access to all the saved content. So, does anyone know of any solution like this, but running locally instead? I tried Recoll, and both the FF extension and the query engine were... unpolished, to say the least... EDIT: mentioned in another comment Web Clipper +…
https://github.com/rhizome-conifer/conifer
The intent is a webrecorder for the internet.
It records all js libraries, loads videos, and all else.
Once stored, you can review a snapshot at that point in time.
They have a service option, webrecorder.io, but this one let's you store directly locally.
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They do not cover the same use case. If you have 80 tabs each for 3 different topics, you end up managing 240 tabs. It's sometimes more manageable to split this off into entirely different browser profiles (or browsers, even).
You can use Tree Style Tab or similar (AFAIR there are a few different extensions with different tradeoffs for similar features).