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   Matt Hamilton (eriner@noauthority.social)'s status on Thursday, 15-May-2025 07:01:09 JST Matt Hamilton

   Is there a third-party browser extension or website to restore the comments section to YouTube (and other sites that selectively disable comments on some content?)

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     Blurry Moon (sun@shitposter.world)'s status on Thursday, 15-May-2025 07:01:08 JST Blurry Moon

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     @eriner I have wanted to make this for years
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     Blurry Moon (sun@shitposter.world)'s status on Thursday, 15-May-2025 07:04:56 JST Blurry Moon

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     @eriner consideration is that gab tried to do this and their extension got removed from chrome, but I'm willing to try.
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     Matt Hamilton (eriner@noauthority.social)'s status on Thursday, 15-May-2025 07:04:57 JST Matt Hamilton

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     @sun I just bought commentary.social, want to work on it together? (I'm open to other names, was just the first thing that popped in my head.)

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     Blurry Moon (sun@shitposter.world)'s status on Thursday, 15-May-2025 07:10:43 JST Blurry Moon

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     @eriner it's possible the only reason it got removed was it was associated with gab, but consider the type of stuff people will use this extension for (not that I mind but) it could get heat from browsers. I would like to do it as a greasemonkey extension so they can't block it
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     Matt Hamilton (eriner@noauthority.social)'s status on Thursday, 15-May-2025 07:10:44 JST Matt Hamilton

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     @sun I'll look into that more, I wasn't aware of it or any details of how they implemented it.

     Just seems like a sorely missing utility, and one that could only be provided by people who have demonstrated a bonafide belief in freedom of speech.

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     Blurry Moon (sun@shitposter.world)'s status on Thursday, 15-May-2025 07:15:34 JST Blurry Moon

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     • JollyWizard
     @eriner @JollyWizard you have to turn off a bunch of security in chrome to load a local extension from the filesystem and in firefox you have to use the unbranded developer version of the browser, it's impossible with the stock version
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     Matt Hamilton (eriner@noauthority.social)'s status on Thursday, 15-May-2025 07:15:35 JST Matt Hamilton

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     • Blurry Moon

     @sun I think offering it that way makes sense, but as @JollyWizard pointed out, removal from the chrome store doesn't mean that you can't distribute it directly, right?

     Here is the extension, abandoned six years ago: https://github.com/gab-ai-inc/gab-dissenter-extension/

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     JollyWizard (jollywizard@poa.st)'s status on Thursday, 15-May-2025 07:19:54 JST JollyWizard

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     • Blurry Moon
     @sun @eriner can't you just use the URL web extensions install method and approve the domain through the built in UI.
     
     I thought the issue with local filesystem is that it could bypass user approval. hence why you can't script extension installs for ff anymore.
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     Blurry Moon (sun@shitposter.world)'s status on Thursday, 15-May-2025 07:19:54 JST Blurry Moon

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     @JollyWizard @eriner do you mean in firefox? link me to more details
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     Blurry Moon (sun@shitposter.world)'s status on Thursday, 15-May-2025 07:23:27 JST Blurry Moon

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     • JollyWizard
     @eriner @JollyWizard that part shouldn't be a problem, it's because of a new standard for extensions that breaks ublock, but the new standard would work for this fine. the issue with chrome and firefox is that if you do anything interesting related to bypassing moderation they are interested in stopping you
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     Matt Hamilton (eriner@noauthority.social)'s status on Thursday, 15-May-2025 07:23:28 JST Matt Hamilton

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     @sun @JollyWizard Hmm. I'll investigate more this evening, but if it's really a hassle then that gives credence to your idea to do it as a userscript, though I worry that may be quite cumbersome.

     I also know that uBlock and other extensions are actively being fucked over by Google, but I'm unfamiliar with the technical specifics.

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     Blurry Moon (sun@shitposter.world)'s status on Thursday, 15-May-2025 07:25:24 JST Blurry Moon

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     @eriner @JollyWizard another possibility is somehow integrate it into a different open source youtube frontend
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     Blurry Moon (sun@shitposter.world)'s status on Thursday, 15-May-2025 07:37:00 JST Blurry Moon

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     @ndz @JollyWizard @eriner there was actually one in like the 1990s but it got killed by a copyright lawsuit because you are putting user content on someone else's website. It's probably legally relevant but I choose not to worry about it. I also can't remember the name.
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     Nick (ndz@noauthority.social)'s status on Thursday, 15-May-2025 07:37:02 JST Nick

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     @JollyWizard @eriner @sun there was another one before gab tried it. At the time I thought it was going to be great but then it died almost immediately. Ill try to remember the name... I may still have it.

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     JollyWizard (jollywizard@poa.st)'s status on Thursday, 15-May-2025 07:37:03 JST JollyWizard

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     @eriner @sun nailed it on the domain.
     
     biggest problem is where/how to store the comments. Ripe for abuse that could stick you with major hosting costs. Decentralized would be better.
     
     Dissenter was stored on gab servers, and limited to their userbase.
     
     User should have control over what sources to include.
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     JollyWizard (jollywizard@poa.st)'s status on Thursday, 15-May-2025 09:23:54 JST JollyWizard

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     @sun @eriner looked into it more and you are correct. the whole thing has gotten super fucky.
     
     I knew they had escalated the blocking of local deployments due to sketchy bloatware installs hijacking homepages with extensions etc, and that had affected things like deploying ublocks automically, but I was under the impression that third party web extensions had the right to self host from their own domain, pending a user UI approval for install, which is apparently not the case.
     
     Super gay.
     
     However, a prepackaged distribution of chromium or Firefox, similar to how the tor browser is distributed, could be built with some ci automation.
     
     I know people who have tried the tor browser. People try new browsers. I don't know one person IRL who has used greasemonkey. Technically a solution but it has a ux smell.
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     Blurry Moon (sun@shitposter.world)'s status on Thursday, 15-May-2025 09:23:54 JST Blurry Moon

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     @JollyWizard @eriner I am absolutely not going to build a browser
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     Dad (noyoushutthefuckupdad@shitposter.world)'s status on Thursday, 15-May-2025 09:45:47 JST Dad

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     @sun @JollyWizard @eriner ShitBrowser: it runs like shit but dammit, it's both kinds of free
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     Nick (ndz@noauthority.social)'s status on Thursday, 15-May-2025 10:25:47 JST Nick

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     @JollyWizard @eriner @sun

     I found it with the help of ChatGPT. Grok failed me.

     It was called "Glue". This was long before Gab's Dissenter.

     When I learned of this, I thought it would change the web as we know it. You could leave a trail of what websites you visitied. Again, I was wrong...

     https://www.wired.com/2009/06/glue-goes-mainstream-with-new-internet-explorer-plugin/

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