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"Return YouTube Dislike" Chrome Extension Injecting Ads

71 points| snug | 4 months ago |chromewebstore.google.com

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snug|4 months ago

Update from the dev:

> Unfortunately the extension requires quite a large database (~15TB) - and it costs money.

> The ad\changelog was supposed to show only on browser restart - i.e. be much less intrusive

> The idea behind paid features was also to cover the costs (since donations became smaller than the hosting costs).

> I messed up with implementation though.

> Sorry.

I do feel for the developer, and I am not anti asking for donations, and the full page pop up on browser restart I don't think is terrible, but it would have been better to maybe have a changelog and have a donation button. The ads injected directly into youtube make me lose a lot of trust

busymom0|4 months ago

> the extension requires quite a large database (~15TB)

Maybe I am missing something but how does a database which just needs to store video ID and a number become 15TB in size?

ekjhgkejhgk|4 months ago

I don't feel for the developer. If donations is smaller than hosting costs, just stop putting time into it. It's a stupid gimmick anyway.

sieep|4 months ago

Thanks for sharing. I haven't noticed anything on the Firefox extension under the same name. ublock may be stopping it. I can investigate and post what I find here in a few hours.

snug|4 months ago

I also have uBlock as well, and it didn't catch it for me

mrkramer|4 months ago

At this point it would be better to start building and working on new web video hosting platform than to cry over feature that is most likely never coming back.

Bratmon|4 months ago

The users of this extension balked at paying for the upkeep of a 15TB database of (user, like) mappings.

Do you really think they're gonna financially support an entire video hosting platform?

ekjhgkejhgk|4 months ago

You gotta be a bit short sighted to imagine that the kind of people that would download an extension would accept ads.

On the other hand, you also have to be a bit short sighted to be installed gargabage like "an extension so you can downvote" lol.

AlienRobot|4 months ago

They won't "accept ads" but they also won't pay for the extension, so I think in practice this is a good way to tell users "you're costing me money, go away."

snug|4 months ago

You can downvote youtube videos without the extension, the extension just shows how many people downvoted a video since youtube took that visibility away a few years ago. It does help when there are shitty video recommendations and can ignore videos that have a bad ratio

QuadmasterXLII|4 months ago

I highly recommend following the official tutorial to create a browser extension for your preferred browser, and just making any changes to websites there instead of installing extensions made by someone else. For example, removing youtube shorts is like five lines of code in my personal extension. The rate at which published browser extensions turn into malware has escalated from “oh that’s concerning” to “How many times do I have to teach you this lesson old man”

eviks|4 months ago

How would your tutorial help get voting information from other users?

gruez|4 months ago

You don't even need to make your own extension, which requires a bunch of boilerplate and docs. Userscripts (eg. greasemoney) or userstyles (eg. stylus) is often all you need, and much more straightforward to make.