Vinegar: Safari extension that replaces YouTube embeds with HTML5 video tags

Post by TheFreim » Mon, Nov 29, 2021, 1:24 PM UTC

zarzavat wrote: post #99

klodolph wrote: post #67

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> Fortunately, there is no truth of the matter, so anything goes as long as we're internally consistent. I don't think that what you said is internally consistent. Now, we may disagree about exactly what you mean, but it sounds like you are putting forth some form of moral relativism, which has appeared in various forms over the millennia. Many ways of phrasing moral relativism have logical inconsistencies in them. I…

To quote Stephen Fry, moral relativism is just another way of saying "thinking". Morals can come from culture, they can come from religion, or they can come from individual contemplation. Morals are axioms. The one thing we can say for sure about them is that nobody agrees on what they should be. Saying that advertising is a pest that should be actively removed is not even an uncommon viewpoint. The city of Sao Paolo…

Post by Eric_WVGG » Mon, Nov 29, 2021, 1:27 PM UTC

jiriro wrote: post #79

kergonath wrote: post #65

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Yeah, that’s unfortunate that we have to trust developers to that extent. OTOH, it is true that they could get a lot of information once we give them the right to inject some JavaScript in every webpage we load. Personally, I have enabled it only on YouTube so they should not be able to touch the rest.

How do you enable an extension (this one) ONLY on youtube?

Post by vultour » Mon, Nov 29, 2021, 1:46 PM UTC

musicale wrote: post #75

dmart wrote: post #12

Installed this and it's great. That said, it's embarrassing how many iOS extensions I have installed just to work around today's shitty websites. AdGuard to make the web usable, AMPlosion to avoid AMP nonsense, Open in Apollo to avoid mobile Reddit dark pattens, now this (which I installed because YouTube's new embed widget starts playing on touch-start instead of touch-release, so it triggers while scrolling...)

> it's embarrassing how many iOS extensions I have installed just to work around today's shitty websites The user-hostile design of web sites in 2021 is appalling. Even simple text articles or blog posts have become horrible. I was just reading a blog post linked from HN which featured 3 different popups: two modals and a modeless sidebar popup that follows you as you scroll. No, I don't want to subscribe to your ema…

Post by BuyMyBitcoins » Mon, Nov 29, 2021, 1:55 PM UTC

Khaine wrote: post #101

This is great just to get standard video controls. I mostly don't mind YouTube ads, except for two things: 1) they allow ads significantly longer than the ad break, forcing you to interact to skip the ad (i.e. all those stupid music videos as ads), and; 2) Text ad pop over the video content. Their entire business is showing us videos we want to watch, and they cover it with a text ad overlay. Its like they want to go…

Post by acdha » Mon, Nov 29, 2021, 2:30 PM UTC

vultour wrote: post #106

musicale wrote: post #75

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> it's embarrassing how many iOS extensions I have installed just to work around today's shitty websites The user-hostile design of web sites in 2021 is appalling. Even simple text articles or blog posts have become horrible. I was just reading a blog post linked from HN which featured 3 different popups: two modals and a modeless sidebar popup that follows you as you scroll. No, I don't want to subscribe to your ema…

I refuse to believe those newsletter popups ever get any interaction apart from clueless people who think you need to fill them out so they go away.