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grantwinney / hide-comments-everywhere

A browser extension for hiding major commenting systems like Disqus, Livefyre, Facebook plugin, WordPress, YouTube, etc.
MIT License
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i want to allow specific utube channels comments #191

Closed plautus2 closed 8 months ago

plautus2 commented 8 months ago

I want to block all comments but whitelist a couple youtube channels that I follow. So basically I only want to communicate wiht the author. can u make this work?

grantwinney commented 8 months ago

Sorry, that's not something I've got the time to do with this extension, tailoring it so heavily for YouTube. It would take a lot of extra code to make it work, if it's possible at all. Somehow I'd have to scrape the user or channel name off the page to see if it should be blocked, or maybe call some YouTube API or something.

In theory the custom whitelist on the options screen might help, if only the URL of a video contained the author's name or their channel name. But once you're viewing a video, the URL just starts with "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=", so there's no easy way to whitelist them, unfortunately.