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Re: Show HN: Tiny Chrome extension to disable images to reduce distractions

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Post by archb »

cornstalks wrote: post #49
HeatrayEnjoyer wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's actually from the adblocker. Google is cracking down and making YouTube harder to use if you don't have ads or a premium subscription.

No, it’s when you are signed out and have no watch history (I can’t remember if it also does it when signed in but with no watch/search history). Try an incognito window with no ad blocker. Trust me on this one. Read about it here: https://support.google.com/youtube/thread/139222780?hl=en&ms...

Yeah, I have watch and search history turned off. The former makes the dashboard empty.

Turning on watch history brings suggestions back.

Re: Show HN: Tiny Chrome extension to disable images to reduce distractions

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Post by archb »

exitb wrote: post #29
cornstalks wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Not extremely sure why this happens It’s when you have no watch history.

I also have no watch history, but my screen only began to look like that when I subscribed to premium.

Didn't realize it's a premium-specific thing. I have had watch history turned off for a long time now, and assumed that's all that one needed to do for dashboard to be empty.

Re: Show HN: Tiny Chrome extension to disable images to reduce distractions

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Post by 7bit »

pen2l wrote: post #13

I've gotta share something -- so, I think I have a bit of an addiction with YouTube and I'd been thinking about how to shake it off. I didn't get round to it for whatever reason (blocks in modem settings maybe), but one day a month or so ago, if I went to YouTube, I saw this screen: https://i.imgur.com/OIL0jSE.png Not extremely sure why this happens (I reckon it has to do with my use of adguard), but anyway I noticed…

> I noticed I would just... move on

That's kinda what happened to me and Reddit. After all the drama with the API (which I never used, btw) I decided to delete my Reddit account of 10 years. Something I never thought I would do, as I spent a significant amount of my internet time on it.

I still go to Reddit from time to time just to browse, and still use it a lot to get viewpoints on specific topics (via Google site: ), but I never partake in discussion any longer. And I don't miss it at all. I still have the urge to punch someone to the face if they share factually wrong information, but I'm glad I have no account to write a comment any longer.

It's truly weird how fast important things can become unimportant.

Re: Show HN: Tiny Chrome extension to disable images to reduce distractions

#57

Post by cornstalks »

archb wrote: post #54
exitb wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I also have no watch history, but my screen only began to look like that when I subscribed to premium.

Didn't realize it's a premium-specific thing. I have had watch history turned off for a long time now, and assumed that's all that one needed to do for dashboard to be empty.

It’s not a premium thing. It started last year and may have just coincidentally started around the time they signed up for premium.

Re: Show HN: Tiny Chrome extension to disable images to reduce distractions

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Re: Show HN: Tiny Chrome extension to disable images to reduce distractions

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Post by jon_richards »

nehal3m wrote: post #43
jon_richards wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I put a rule in my adblocker to block the reddit homepage but not individual threads (because that's often where google takes me). Massively helpful, but also concerning how months later I still automatically try to go to the homepage every once in a while and run into my adblocker.

Would you mind describing how you set up that filter? edit: Using AdGuard for Safari, the following works for me under custom filtering rules: ||reddit.com^$document ||old.reddit.com^$document @@||reddit.com/r/*/comments/* @@||old.reddit.com/r/*/comments/* @@||reddit.com/r/*/comments/*$document @@||old.reddit.com/r/*/comments/*$document

I just use:

||reddit.com/^$document,important

@@||reddit.com/*$document

Re: Show HN: Tiny Chrome extension to disable images to reduce distractions

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Post by labrador »

Boltgolt wrote: post #56
labrador wrote: post #15

I wrote a bookmarklet for same: javascript:(function(){var imgs=document.getElementsByTagName("img"); for(var i=0;i

Although it will break on elements and any element with a background-image of course

I had Claude modify it to add those features

    javascript:(function(){
        var imgs = document.getElementsByTagName("img");
        for (var i = 0; i
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