NoCoin
youtube
NoCoin | youtube | |
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3 | 12 | |
1,590 | 3,184 | |
- | 5.8% | |
0.3 | 9.9 | |
over 3 years ago | 2 days ago | |
JavaScript | JavaScript | |
MIT License | GNU General Public License v3.0 or later |
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NoCoin
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Ask HN: What is the most impactful thing you've ever built?
My most impactful project was definitely NoCoin [0], the first web miner blocker. Back when Monero miners started appearing and sneakily mining on pages, like The Pirate Bay for example, I decided to throw together a browser extension that would simply block requests to the resources that hosted these mining scripts. The project was in no way a technical achievement, it was simply intercepting requests and blocking them based on a list. I could have very well added the resources to some other project like uBlock origin. But it got traction, ended up in the press (WIRED, Motherboard, Gizmodo) and ultimately started being integrated within browsers (Opera was first) and most of the popular ad blockers. The project lost its relevance as everyone else was doing it better and maintaining the list of blocked resources was too time consuming for me. Nevertheless, the goal was achieved, which was to "get rid" of crypto mining on the web. The mission got carried by bigger actors, which brings me more satisfaction than the popularity of the project.
Another impactful project of mine was also a browser extension. Internal tool that started as a lunch time project to make my team's life easier. Can't go in detail on that one, but basically they liked it and start suggesting improvements. So did a department that was working with us. And bit by bit, it became a really useful tool that became standard in these departments. Last I heard, the tool is now deployed company-wide. Crazy to think it started just from some lunch time hacking :-)
[0] https://github.com/keraf/NoCoin
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Nonprofit Websites Are Full of Trackers. That Should Change.
Which in of itself is not a huge dealbreaker since the code is open source and can be found Here, unfortunately after reading their GitHub they are no longer supporting the extension (which makes sense since browsers can stop most mining activity nowadays)
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me_irl
Genuine tip, lots of those sites use your computer to mine bitcoin. If you download a browser extension like No Coin, the videos load a lot faster. Can't verify it for every site, but when it works, it works.
youtube
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is it possible to remove some of these button like clip or just put the save button in front?
I'm using this: https://github.com/code-charity/youtube
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YouTube suddenly forces light mode
Known issue in recent update: https://github.com/code-for-charity/ImprovedTube-for-YouTube/issues/1612
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Lifelong Chrome user switching to Firefox, are there any extensions that are a MUST on the browser?
Improved Youtube
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Video thumbnails are now blank on Firefox
Improved Tube extension was the culprit. No idea why it only happened for one of my accounts though.
- YouTube Extension "Improvedtube" - Giving You tube control. Unprecedented Features. Open-Source
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Fix for Kiwi Browser not scaling right
ImprovedTube [1] [2]
- Economizando tempo no Youtube com extensões em navegadores
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attack on titan anime-onlies, will you be waiting till jan 2022 or will you read the manga considering that the final panel will drop in 10 days and there is no way to dodge spoilers
I've got a chrome extension that just doesn't show youtube comments. (https://github.com/code4charity/YouTube-Extension)
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ImprovedTube has made it to the Firefox add-ons store, and I highly recommend it!
What's the "Friendly License"? https://github.com/code4charity/YouTube-Extension/blob/master/LICENSE
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Is there an equivalent to the Improve YouTube Chromium extension in Firefox?
From: https://github.com/code4charity/YouTube-Extension/issues/440#issuecomment-777681382
What are some alternatives?
BetterViewer - a replacement for the image viewing mode built into Firefox and Chrome-based web browsers.
invidious - Invidious is an alternative front-end to YouTube
lsblk - List information about block devices in the FreeBSD system.
youtube-to-html5-loader - Load YouTube videos with the HTLML5 <video> element without needing iframes or the YouTube JS API.
uBlock - uBlock: a fast, lightweight, and lean blocker for Chrome, Firefox, and Safari. [Moved to: https://github.com/uBlock-LLC/uBlock]
blocktube - YouTube™ content blocker
mil - A small, concatenative programming language. Implemented in C99.
youtube-music - YouTube Music Desktop App bundled with custom plugins (and built-in ad blocker / downloader)
automount - Simple devd(8) based automounter for FreeBSD
viewtube - ▶️ ViewTube: The open source, privacy-conscious way to enjoy your favorite YouTube content. Docs: https://viewtube.wiki, Status: https://uptime.viewtube.io
uBlock - uBlock: a fast, lightweight, and lean blocker for Chrome, Firefox, and Safari.
redditube - A video generator from Reddit posts and comments