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I keep thinking about installing this, but the required permissions seem a bit excessive:
This add-on needs to:
- Input data to the clipboard
- Access your data for all websites
Anyone know if the 'All Access' permission is really required for what this is doing? It just feels wrong. There isn't some sort of "Control Navigation for These Domains" that it could request for each enabled site or something is there?
"Access your data for all websites" is important because otherwise it doesn't know what domain you're on in the first place.
Access browser tabs
Access browser activity during navigation
are enough to do that.
Shouldn’t it just require access to i.e. YouTube.com and not a blanket everything? This is what other extensions do.
It's open source, you can ask the author and other users about it too (if you can't read the code yourself)
Oh, I'm confident(-ish) in my ability to review the code, but as I understand it I have no way to guarantee that the code that's on github is the code that AMO installs. Plus updates are automatic, so I have no way to ensure that something malicious won't be added anyway.
You can build it yourself from source then.
You can only do that with Firefox Developer, can't you? And IIRC, they self uninstall after a week or something, don't they?
You can either install it unsigned with Firefox Developer Edition and it will be permanent. Or you can sign it yourself (you don’t need to publish it on AMO): https://extensionworkshop.com/documentation/publish/signing-and-distribution-overview/ and it will work on regular Firefox.
I think you can still build the extension package and upload it yourself
I would suggest Redirector.
It lets you redirect any site you desire.
Sadly the developer passed away. I found out after looking into the development when trying to edit some redirects brought my phone to its knees. It's a good extension, but clearly needs a bit of love.
RIP Einar Egilsson
Shit, that's my favorite redirect extension for Chrome.
It can also redirect Reddit links to alternative sites and I’m here for the Lemmy hate for Reddit. Sometimes the YT redirects fail to play but you can open a private window to bypass the addon and go straight to YouTube. I second OPs recommendation, for what that is worth.
I will take a look, but can anyone offer suggestions for casting from my phone? Over the years I have become very accustomed to setting up a YouTube casting queue when I start my remote work shift and just letting it play all day as background noise and as much as I hate YT, I love the creators I watch and the convenience. I am very much so ambivalent about the abuses vs my mental well-being for work.
Take a look at ReVanced
Unfortunately both ReVanced and ReVanced Extended do not support casting. Just tested it. The whole issue is that I need it put onto the TV, which they unfortunately can not do. I will be keeping them for when I am watching on my phone, so thank you for that.
Nevermind, I got it working.
Ok, still not right. Looks like I am going to have to fight. I have hope though. Will report back if I actually get it working.
Is the TV "smart"? You can manually connect ReVanced to the TV by inputting the code shown on the TV's YouTube app
Chromecast, a little dongle thing plugged into the HDMI port. And yes, I can connect ReVanced in this way, but it doesn't change anything about the app that is running on the Chromecast, still has ads, still does all the sponsor shit, etc.
I am going to be installing the app on our SpyTV later this week though.
Ah yes, of course. If you had an actual Android TV you could install SmartTube which hides ads just like ReVanced. But I don't think it works on a bare Chromecast
SmartTubeNext
Unfortunately, much like ReVanced, does not support Chromecast.
Install it on your Chromecast, that's what I've done. No you can't cast but you can log in and find your history and such and pull the video up there
How fo you install it on there? I was under the impression the the Chromecast didn't install anything, but served web-based applications housed on the external servers.
Only the first and maybe second gen is like that. If you get a current one with Google TV, or any Android TV box for thar matter, you can install any apk you want. Either through its special store or by sideloading with a browser or ftp or whatever you want
Well I am using a Chromecast Ultra, but who knows.
This still can't be installed on standard FireFox mobile, right?
on android you can enable "share"/"open in external app" and send the link to piped or newpipe or whatever your preferred app is; that's how I do it
It works fine on Fennec, Beta, Nightly, and others using custom collection.
Any chance it only redirects the watch URLs on YouTube? So you can use YouTube to find the videos and on clicking them links it takes you elsewhere?
Nope, for that you should use something like Redirector, but I don't think it allows random instance selection.
I was reading the name as "lib-redirect" lol
Also, spanish is my native language
Edit: argh maybe it's LibRedirect indeed
If I were to guess, I'd say it's libre-redirect, with the middle 're' being deduplicated.
Ahhh, so it's meant to say libre direct.
English is mine and I've been reading it the same way as you up until you just mentioned it.
I'd like for connect to redirect links of a certain kind. I don't always want stuff to end up in my YouTube app, would rather that it opened in piped or something instead.
Any reason for making a new extension instead of creating a FastForward filter list?