Have you given up on using adblock on YouTube??? Do you wish to still have your recommendations? Well, this may help!
This extension redirects you after clicking on a YouTube video to a service of your choice. This lets you keep your YouTube recommendations (and continue being tracked!!!). It will take everything a bit longer to load as it refreshes everything after leaving, but it's still faster than watching an advert (by far)!
Get the add-on from addons.mozilla.org
- Download the
.xpiaddon file from the Releases page - Go to
about:addons - Click the gear icon and select
Install Add-on From File
- Clone the repository or download as zip
- Go to
about:debugging - Click on
This Firefox - Then
Load Temporary Add-on - Select
manifest.jsonin thesrc/directory from the cloned repo.
Click on the icon in the toolbar and then change the URL, you should ignore the 'www.' part of it.
Yes... Yes... YES!!! Please do contribute, this is my first time writing an extension, so any improvements will be welcomed.
There are several things I think it could be better with. For one being speed. Number two I would like it to not register everything to history and only show the one that it gets redirected to.
Buy me a coffee?
I want to give some cridit to d3vr/yt-siphon for inspiring me.
YT Redirect is Free Software: You can use, study, share, and improve it at will. Specifically you can redistribute and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.