Sometimes, when you activate/deactivate the extension the audio/video:

• Takes a while to start (sometimes up to half a minute)
• Never starts (rarely)
  • It usually happens when you activate the extension. The main reason is that fails to "find" any audio URL. More common in Firefox
• Loads the video/audio but pauses

The permission "tabs" throws a warning to the users who install the extension saying that the extension can "Read your browsing history"
https://developer.chrome.com/docs/extensions/develop/concepts/permission-warnings#permissions_with_warnings

Permission "tabs" is used to monitor when a URL changes and adjust the extension's functionality accordingly (remove qapages or sspages settings etc, start blocking videos/images if it is a YouTube URL or stop if it is not). It is used here

Try to implement this with popstate listener in the content scripts (to inform the background script for changes in the URL or if a new page is YouTube or YouTube Music) and beforeunload listener (to inform the background script that this page was removed/changed to something else)

Add an option (in the options page) where the user could select if they want the video to be blocked or just hidden. When the video is just hidden it can switch from visible to hidden very fast. If the user is not interested in the benefits of blocking the video, they can enable this option for better performance.

It has been suggested by some users. Not sure if it is a good idea. I think that it will add unnecessary complexity to the code (not sure, it may be something very easy)

Idea: a button on the top-left corner of the video player that will be visible on hover.

YouTube will now detect the adblocker. it would be better to have descriptions reminding users about this situation next to the 'Ad skipper' button in settings.

Inform the users by adding a warning button next to this option (or something like that. Maybe a popup when they enable this option)

First keep only google.com

Delete the option completely in a next version.

Dear dev,

First of all, thank you so much for this awesome add-on!!! It combines everything I need (skip ads + music mode), and even has a beautiful and clean interface...

I have it ON all the time for skipping ads but I only toggle Hide the video on some videos when not watching them.
Every time it switches from video to audio, there is a long lag. Sometimes it even stalls and it's necessary to manually click on play/pause or move the timeline to get the audio to load.

Attached you will find the settings I use.

Thanks again for your wonderful work and happy new year!

In YouTube, if I use the 'Images quick access button' to turn off the images and then hide the button in the settings, there will be no way to see the images in YouTube again, even if I turn off all the options in settings.

The solution is when a user deactivates the option "Images quick access button" or "Video quick access button" to remove their stored settings (sspages) as well. (the fields in the sspages that have to come with the respective button that was deactivated, not the whole object)

The extension's logo is visible in the videos even when the "Remove extension's logo from videos" option is enabled. This happens in Firefox as it was reported by a user. (It does not happen in my computer)

When the option "Show video thumbnail in video player" is enabled on YouTube Music, sometimes the image that is loaded does not exist resulting to this:

The extension's logo is visible in YouTube Music songs (not videos), even if the option "Remove extension's logo from videos" is enabled.

Example of a YouTube Music song: https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=vWeU-lKBvBg&list=RDAMVMvWeU-lKBvBg

Scott Wurtz

Mar 22, 2024

Expand Audience with Third "Popup* Option"
Hello - I believe the audience of your extension could be expanded if you added one feature to your "options" menu. You currently have two options under your "Popup* options" section. I'd like to propose a third: "Allow Controlling Extension from Popup* Options", which would be enabled by default, and have all the same behavior of the extension in its current form.

If you disable this option, then the Music Mode On/Off switch and the Current Tab On/Off switch would disappear from the Popup Options menu. This would mean that the extension is always forced to be on while it is enabled.

The audience this would appeal to would be people interested in purposefully restricting themselves from visual youtube content, but wanting to allow audio youtube content. There would easily be a handful of users of an internet filter software "Plucky" (https://pluckyfilter.com/) who would begin using your extension every day, and suggest to others that they do the same. Plucky (and likely other self control softwares) can restrict disabling extensions and changing extension settings from the Chrome extensions page (chrome-extension://abbpaepbpakcpipajigmlpnhlnbennna/pages/options.html), but do not allow for restricting changing settings from the Popup Options menu. As of today, then, this extension is not useful for self-restricting users because they can simply disable it from the Popup Options menu, but with this extra option, this demographic could have access to all youtube audio content while being unable to access youtube visual content, which would be instrumental for this demographic. To my knowledge, there is no other extension that has this functionality.

I, for one, would certainly begin using it each and every day, and would donate to support your development.

Thanks for reading. It is a great extension!

Hey, I've been using this extension for a while now, but one thing that bugs me is that every now and then, without any apparent reason, the settings revert to their defaults. I have the settings set so that the extension only blocks video on music.youtube.com, and shows the thumbnail of the video instead of the extension's logo. However, the extension periodically sets it so that all video and thumbnails are blocked, on youtube.com as well.

I use the extension on Vivaldi and this has been going on for quite a few months now. It continues to happen as I made the switch from Windows to Linux.

Please let me know what other specifics I should include, as I'm not sure what's relevant.

It depends on #11
This feature will be added when we find a reliable why to count the distinct videos that have been blocked

I'm constantly having to switch this extension on and off because if it's on, the default is music mode. If the default was not music mode I could select which tabs I want to use it in.

A button on the modified web page to switch modes would also be nice.