chandler-stimson / live-stream-downloader

Download M3U8 live streams to the local disk
https://webextension.org/listing/hls-downloader.html
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Add independant xpi version and crx version for firefox and chromium based browsers outside the stores to avoid the delay of updates on the stores and avoid possible censorship of the paid store #63

Open trimechee opened 1 month ago

trimechee commented 1 month ago

Hello, thank you so much Mr @chandler-stimson for the new amazing version or our belved Live-stream-downloader ! 🥇 💯

Please we have request : add independant xpi version and crx version for firefox and chromium based browsers outside the stores (it seems developers have to pay money to put their extensions in chrome store !) to avoid the delay of updates on the stores and avoid possible censorship of the paid store because :

I see that the version of the extension is updated on the Chrome web store but not yet updated on Firefox Stre and Edge store so these stores seem to be behind in accepting new versions !

And chrome web store, edge store, firefox store, naver store....can censor the extension or limit its functionalities (for example ban on downloading from youtube) so having independent versions of the extension under firmat crx and xpi can solve this problem because there are many good web browsers that allow us to install extensions/addons outside of the stores...for exemple, this downloader extension was censired by was censored and banned by the chrome web store !

https://github.com/puemos/hls-downloader?tab=readme-ov-file#google

so chrome does not like users to install extensions outside the chrome store because chrome web store is apparently paid and developers have to pay money....chrome wants to keep control over the functionalities of the extensions like prohibiting downloading from youtube, in addition apparently chrome is energy intensive including javascript high timer and it is not a good idea for the battery to use chrome as a downloader....

there are many reliable, energy-efficient chromium web browsers that allow us to install extensions and our beloved Live-stream-downloader extension outside the chrome web store as well as far from google censorship such as:

https://github.com/uazo/cromite

https://github.com/Alex313031/thorium

https://chromium.woolyss.com/

https://www.catsxp.com/ (this chineese web browser can install microsoft edge extensions and it seems it is based on brave browser, some say it is open source, others say it is not open source, I was going to install it but I gave up because I find it surprising that they say on their site: "Users are not allowed to reverse engineer, decompile, or disassemble this software product" while they use the source code of brave or chromium apparently, in addition the Chinese communist party requires Chinese companies to spy on people....I don't 'don't blame this browser but you have to be wary, we hope for an audit on this browser....

and maybe:

https://whale.naver.com/en/

maybe if it doesn't tire him, Mr Chandler can try adding our beloved Live-stream-downloader to the naver whale store:

https://store.whale.naver.com/extensions/popular

because naver whale browser is a famous Korean web browser, of course if the naver store is free otherwise it is not not worth it :)

I think our belved Live-stream-downloader, maybe it will be good to include in its FAQ, to advise users not to use chrome browser and use other web browsers which do not censor extensions like reliable browsers: librewolf, mercury, ghostery, edge . ..

https://github.com/Alex313031/Mercury

https://github.com/ghostery/user-agent-desktop?tab=readme-ov-file

https://gitlab.com/librewolf-community/browser/bsys6/-/releases

and floorp browser, waterfox browser, mullvad browser..and many other opens source browsers.....

Thank you so much !