YouTube.js VS ad-accelerator

BTW, I don't understand the workaround: https://github.com/iv-org/invidious/pull/4552/files

Which was taken from here: https://github.com/LuanRT/YouTube.js/pull/624

Could anybody explain it to me?

There is a javascript library for interfacing with Youtube's API directly. It can also run on browsers. Using this, it's pretty easy to create a simple extension that replaces the default video player with your own. You can do a lot to improve your experience this way. I've made one which allows for higher quality streaming, pre-buffering video in the background, more subtitling options, etc... [2].

[1] https://github.com/LuanRT/YouTube.js

You can try Tod usw this youtubei.js

Love this approach. We can just bypass all the normal web scraping and get the structured data straight from the source. These APIs are usually no less stable than the ever changing HTML structure anyways.

Case study: YouTube.js

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31021611

https://github.com/LuanRT/YouTube.js

A few months ago I made a free open source extension to speedup youtube ads that I shared here & hit the front page. Within a week a guy (who commented on my show hn thread) copied it and promoted his version on reddit which went viral and has 300k+ Users [1]

But why copy a free open source extension instead of just contributing? Well... a few weeks later he was trying to sell it on multiple sites for 5 figures. Maybe they still own it but I couldn't help but notice that the registered developer for his extension on the chrome store has also changed since it was originally published.

[1] https://github.com/rkk3/ad-accelerator/blob/main/lessons_pos...

> They "probably" had your idea in the back of their mind for 10 days, and didn't remember that?

That was just a cheeky response they gave me after I reached out on Sunday (8 days after my post).

> Document their timeline, versus the timeline you made and continue to make your updates.

They first posted theirs 4 days after my Show HN which went viral on r/webdev. I assumed they had just come to it on their own and I didn't realize they had seen & commented on my work until Sunday (8 days after the Show HN).

I mention this in the referenced post https://github.com/rkk3/ad-accelerator/blob/main/lessons_pos...

>Is there a feature you could add? Like muting the sped up ads?

Muting the ads was in the original. But in terms of another feature another member of the community contributed a PR that adds support for Hulu.