Reviews for Adblock for Youtube + Remove Shorts - GoodTube
Adblock for Youtube + Remove Shorts - GoodTube by GoodTube
3 reviews
- Rated 1 out of 5by Styphoryte, 16 days agoThis developer was known in the past to collect hardware "debug" data openly on his github but yet I look now and the github is completely disappeared! That leaves little to no trust left now, especially after installing and seeing it's 2 bucks whenever I can easily use AdNaseum or Ublock instead and I've had no issues for months now as long as I keep my filters up to date sure there's a rare issue here and there like any extension. But I highly doubt this is worth 2 dollhairs, but hey if you're really in dire need of adblocking and ublock isn't working for some weird reason and you don't wanna pay for premium cuz you're cheap and don't know how to use Google Rewards in order to pay for premium for a few months to bypass any kind of Google youtube account temp ban from adblocking detection, then my good sir you ahven't been in the game long enough imo. No extension is worth this money because there's no guarantee, it will constantly be a battle between Youtube and adblockers now unfortunately. I do miss the good ol' days, but what can you do..... No hate at all just a fair warning for everyone, I highly doubt this person is doing anything that nefarious or it wouldn't be on here no accusations obviously I just think the idea of removing the github and then tryna charge money for this bs whenever there's plenty of other free ones mostly all free actually then what's even the point?? Sure I get it ppl need to make money but idk, I think my gripe would not be much at all if the github or codeberg was still around. If it is I will edit and adjust my review accordingly but until then I don't think this is a great extension. Really if you proved you aren't sharing or collecting data that's that intrusive and had a github page about it then I will update my review. Until then I'm just not sure about this extension at all. Also to restore the Old Youtube UI from 2023-2024ish just grab Control Panel for YouTube that's a great alternative... I hope you can understand and like I said no personal vendetta or anything like that or any disrespect I just have trouble trusting anyone these days. Anyways thanks for your work either way in fighting youtube LMAO Either way that is a W in my book. 😎 Just wish there was a github, etc we can all view. And maybe there is and im just being stupid right now and if so apologies!!!! Anyone reading this I wouldn't be that concerned well maybe Idk don't trust every extension you find on here, if you feel safe with it and don't have much to worry about then install any extension you'd like but for now this one is off the table for me. I used to like it whenever it was a tampermonkey script though, until i read about the data collection on Reddit. Idk I just think addressing this would help in general. Thanks for understanding. Like I said maybe im wrong and you have already addressed this, but I haven't seen anything new about it yet.
Developer response
posted 16 days agoAh, let me address some of your concerns.
1. The old userscript version contained a simple counter, where I could see how many unique users there were and how many videos were watched - but no personal information was collected. This current version / extension contains no tracking at all however. Nothing is collected. I take your privacy and security quite seriously.
2. The Github was actually suspended, it's not something I deleted or anything like that. Honestly I'm not too sure why, when I released the update announcing that the old UI was now fixed - they deleted it automatically. I think I said some stuff about living free that was too spicy haha.
Something like "I've been having a really oppressive time in Australia lately, managed to make this update last thing before moving overseas with my partner and I'm travelling one way to Germany. Down with the systems that control us, life free be free!"
To be real with you - I'm actually sending this message from a hostel in Tokyo and about to go to a rave. Making some pasta first with my gf haha. I'm a real person, this is not a large commercial product. I have zero interest in tracking you whatsoever. This is essentially a battle against large scale capitalism. Somehow this sort of honesty is really, really controlled lately. In fact it will get your Github deleted...
Anyway, I appealed to have the suspension lifted but they did not reply. I'd actually love to have the Github back online.
In terms of guarantees, I suppose ultimately there are none. However GoodTube has been working 100% of the time for almost 2 years now. That's a pretty good track record I feel. It's a complicated system I'm using but basically this uses Youtube's own terms of service against them and this extension will be very hard for them to stop.
So take it or leave it I guess. It is what it is. If you like it, by all means use it. If you don't that's fine too. But this negative review is kind of unfair and pointless I feel. - Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 19787152, 2 months agoComments are not visible, and neither is the sidebar. No other extensions.
Developer response
posted 2 months agoHey, this issue is not being caused by GoodTube. It's something that Youtube have been doing recently to users when they detect they're using an adblocker.
So far GoodTube is undetectable, so most likely you've got something else enabled which is causing this (such as uBlock Origin). Or had it enabled previously and it's left traces behind in your cookies and cache (in which cause it will trigger detection even when it's been disabled).
Please note that setting the slider on uBlock Origin to the lowest setting won't work, you've got to fully disable it.
Can you try fully disbling all other extensions, clear your cookies and cache, and then test with only GoodTube enabled? I think that will resolve your issue.
From there you can then turn your other extensions back on one at a time until you find the cause of the problem.
Hope that helps! - Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 19626400, 5 months ago