FastStream
| ad-accelerator | FastStream | |
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| 5 | 2 | |
| 380 | 245 | |
| - | - | |
| 6.9 | 9.9 | |
| 12 days ago | 16 days ago | |
| JavaScript | JavaScript | |
| MIT License | GNU General Public License v3.0 or later |
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ad-accelerator
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Detect when your installed Chrome extensions have changed owners
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...
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Ask HN: How do you protect your open-source side projects from copycats?
> 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.
- Lessons from making a YouTube Ad Extension, going viral and getting copied
- Show HN: YouTube banned adblockers so I built an extension to skip their ads
FastStream
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Show HN: Eliminate video buffering with a Chrome extension
This extension will replace videos on websites with a custom one that use download acceleration to prebuffer as you watch.
It works on most websites, including Youtube. Fortuitously, it is also able to bypass Youtube's anti-adblock shenanigans.
I started this project in high school to fix the terrible video players used on most websites. Since then, I've received a lot of feedback from my users and FastStream has improved significantly. Now that most bugs have been ironed out, I think I am ready to share it here on HN.
It is still undergoing rapid development (multiple releases every week), so let me know if you see any bugs or have feature suggestions. I usually address such requests on Github within 2-3 days.
https://github.com/Andrews54757/FastStream
Web Based Demo: (some features not available)
https://faststream.online/player/#https://test-streams.mux.d...
- Show HN: YouTube banned adblockers so I built an extension to skip their ads
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