x0a / uBO-YouTube

Easier way to exempt your favorite YouTube channels from adblocking.
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Global whitelist option #47

Open Fooftilly opened 1 year ago

Fooftilly commented 1 year ago

Can you add an ability to use this extension not as a whitelist for subscribed (or manually whitelisted) channels but also as a global ad control. What I mean by that is that I would like to run ads on every channel, but I don't want to whitelist every channel I visit. I would also like to have an ability to remove trusted string from being added to urls because it would not be needed in this case (I disabled UBO on Youtube). Trusted string also interferes with WaybackMachine extension, making it think that every link with trusted string is unique and because of that it tries to archive it.

x0a commented 1 year ago

Hey, thanks for the request. Given the introduction of the built-in adblocker it should be pretty straight forward to add an option to exclude the URL flag.

To clarify your other suggestion, is this because you prefer to skip ads as needed rather than having the extension automatically do so based on whitelist/subscription status? Or some other use pattern?

Fooftilly commented 1 year ago

I like having ads played on every channel regardless of the subscription/whitelist status. What's nice about this extension is the option to have ads mutes, automatically skipped, or even blocking ads from certain advertisers... In short, I would like to apply options that are currently offered in Ads tab of the extension on every channels and not only on whitelisted ones. I would still like this extension to skip ads automatically, but also to show them on every channel, without them needing trusted string being added to the urls.