Reviews for Youtube Subscription Filter
Youtube Subscription Filter by Kallocain
12 reviews
- Rated 4 out of 5by Kepein, 2 months agoDoes what it promisses.
A nice feature to have would be, being able to add whitelist filters as well as blacklist filters to the same channel.
One issue I found with this extention is that it makes it impossible to use the switch account feature, as the button does not work anymore with this extention enabled. I have to disable it, switch account, and enable it again. - Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 13444042, a year ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Lee1121, a year agoUpdate 12/10/2023: While I initially had some issues with the addon, thanks to the very responsive dev, the issues seem to be fixed!
As such, this addon will really help clean up my sub feed.
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Seems like a really nice addon. Unfortunately it doesn't seem to work (anymore) in List view, even when I disabled other addons.
Hope this gets fixed in a future update :)
Response to dev's response (don't see a replay button): Thank you very much for the swift reply. Looking forward to the update!
Do you happen to have any type of eta? (Even if it's vague, like the coming weeks, months, etc. - and I do understand that this won't be a hard promise :) )
Response 2: Thank you very much! And I understand. No pressure :)
P.s. unfortunately I don't get a notification when you update your message. I'll try to periodically check back, but just wanted to explain in case I take some time to respond to a future update :)
Update 26/09/2023: Great to hear! Looking forward to it
Update 29/09/2023: Hype! :)
Update 01/10/2023: Thanks for the update. Take your time until you feel it's ready :)
Update 02/10/2023: Thank you very much for the hard work! Looking forward to it. Also thanks for linking the github repository.
P.s. your repository isn't linked in your add-on page (unless I'm blind). Don't know if this was on purpose or by accident, but wanted to let you know in case it was the latter.
Update 12/10/2023: Regarding Github: as a C# dev who also struggles with JS, I do have sympathy. But thank you regardless for posting it :)
Regarding the update: initial testing seems positive. Thank you very much!Developer response
posted a year agoIf you mean List view from the youtube Subscribe page I think what that means is that you are either on an old youtube layout and the new layout has not been rolled out to you yet or they re-introduced the List view and you are on a newer layout than me... Normally I try to keep legacy code for old youtube layouts but its really hard to test the code changes locally once Youtube decided to update my layout. In my next update I will try to tackle that problem and make the subscription filter independent from youtube layout changes.
Response to Lee1121: I was looking into it the day you wrote your comment, to get an idea how feasible it is. It looks more complicated then I initially thought, so I would say at least a month. (This is a non-profit side project so it depends how much free time I have)
User story: Change current filter from manipulating the HTML page to manipulating the underlying JSON data. (In hopes youtube changes their data structures less often then their layout)
Update 24/09/2023: I made a first prototype to do a proof of concept for the new change. Working out some details and corner cases in the next few weekends. Just wanted to give a quick update and say that the change seems doable and its actually a fun challenge.
Update 27/09/2023: Filter on initial data when youtube page loads the first time is done and filter on subsequent data loading when user scrolls works as well now. Next up some code cleanup and after that I will do some testing period locally for a week or two and see how it behaves and if I missed something.
Update 30/09/2023: Refactored the code a bit and fixed some issues. Theoretically everything works fine. I'm just not happy that when a user goes from the youtube homepage to the subscribe page I need to force to reload the page because otherwise I can't manipulate the initial data from youtube. Some further digging is needed to figure out how to make that a better experience.
Update 1/10/2023: User experience is as good as I can make it. I still have to reload the whole page when the user closes my filter add-onn popup but I can't think of a single thing I can do about that. Reload between context swapping like homepage -> subscription is not necessary anymore though so that's cool. Still testing a bit but the update should be there in the worst case on the 06/10/2023.
Code changes can be reviewed on: https://github.com/KallocainSynthemesc/Subscription-Filter.
Github: I did a lot of Java development but barely had Javascript experience when I started this add-on and so I did not feel like putting the code out there visible for everyone to read. I'm still not extremely happy with the code, but at the same time I think it might be interesting for everyone to see whats going on behind the curtain. I'm probably going to add it on the main page next update.
Update is online, please tell me if it works correctly - Rated 5 out of 5by Arthur, 2 years agoFinally, the least way to hide Music subscriptions from YouTube subscription page.
- Rated 4 out of 5by YerHor, 2 years agoCould you add a filter to time? I want to block too short videos.
Developer response
posted 2 years agoShould be easy to implement. Will do if I find some free time. Basically a filter for videos that are either to short or to long (maybe someone wants to filter out podcasts or something similar). Thanks for the rating! - Rated 2 out of 5by WStegem, 2 years agoStill mostly works. Disables your ability to switch accounts.
Developer response
posted 2 years agoSorry that the Add-on was causing issues for you. I checked and the behavior is really caused by the Youtube Subscription Filter. I submitted a new version with a fix. Thanks for telling me about the bug. - Rated 5 out of 5by Alex, 2 years agoCreated an account just to give this amazing extension 5 stars. Exactly what I was searching for. This makes YouTube usable again for me. I also paired it with a Shorts blocker and a "always highest video resolution" extension.
- Rated 4 out of 5by Rohan, 4 years agoWorks great overall! The only downside is that in "list" mode for subscriptions (which I personally prefer), empty spaces with the names of the channels that are being blacklisted show up. If you use grid mode then there is no issue at all.
I recommend it! - Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 15337697, 4 years agoDoes what it says on the tin. Would be great to have a "global" blacklist and the UI can be a bit confusing at first.
Developer response
posted 4 years agoThanks for the review. Global whitelist and blacklist were planned at the beginning but since I actually personally do not need it I never implemented it. Regardless it would be a good feature so I thought about putting it as a new icon next to the settings icon. I hope its not going to make the UI even more confusing. If you would have a great idea where to put a global filter feature, or you have other feature requests don't hesitate to share them with me. - Rated 5 out of 5by Holzmichel, 4 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 16054861, 5 years ago