Many critical features of this extension are now locked behind a paywall by the developer. All of these functions can be achieved by other plugins whose devs respect the user enough to take optional donations - the page modifications performed by this extension are simple and powered by the users' hardware. This is a rug pull cash grab.

A previously great extension which has been poorly monetised, locking existing features behind a rolling subscription. Disappointing. Happily it's open source and someone forked it to remove all that.

For a long time, this extension was the best in its field, but now the developer has decided to make previously free features paid. This sucks.

used to be good now you have to pay for premium its disappointing to what it has come too

"'The attention economy has gotten out of control'... and apparently, so is the subscription economy! It's highly ironic to want to 'free' us from one toxic system (YouTube's algorithms), only to lock us straight into another (the perpetual monthly subscription)."

Recently the developer, in their infinite wisdom, has decided to enshittify the addon. Taking many of the most useful features i.e. removing the most annoying parts of yt and locked it behind a paywall.

The truly egregious part? It's a monthly subscription. For an addon that requires no servers to host or function. Not a one time payment, not a donation, a monthly subscription where I'm expected to give over not just money but my details to and sign in on every device and browser I use yt on.

A truly baffling choice to go straight to. No preceding call for other developers, fundraiser, or donation drive which would have been understandable and I would have been likely to donate to as I did truly enjoy using the project. I have been a staunch advocate for this for at least a year telling other to install it to make their yt experience better and I've now had umpteen of those people telling me that it's broken and asking them for money and now I feel like a fool because I recommended it and have to tell them to install something else or in many cases due to lack of technical skill do myself physically.

The dev responses are also comically missing the point. Telling us the pricing is $3 a month or $24 per year like it's nothing at all! Mate in some countries that's a pricey subscription for a streaming service nevermind a firefox addon.

Why has it suddenly become this? Despite the fact a lot more of the recent work on it has been done by an LLM so doesn't that make it require less work? More over why not use the same popup notification to make a call for more people to help share the development load? If you're only 1 person making this (false anyway since there are 3 other contributors and 2 LLMs listed as recent contributors) why not take any of these other steps before a sub model, I just cannot understand it.

As to the basic features still working, yeah they also work in all the other extensions that won't one day out of the blue ask me for money after removing options I used to have and that's the crux of the issue here not that new features are paywalled but that previously free ones I had set were.

I really wish I could offer some constructive feedback but I can't think of a way back from this, even if the sub was removed I still don't think I would consider using it or recommending it lest the rug be pulled again.

Perfect, it does the job as intended and its updated, big thanks to the author

Premium is required to receive 5 stars.

This extension has the audacity to pay wall functionalities. Crazy dude. I can vibe code it under 15 minutes. By the way, Unhook is a good replacement!

All free features became paid features. Do not use.

All paywalled now..

Was a great extenstion but is basically useless now that most of the best features are paywalled :)

I love this extension. It works great, and it's helped me take control of my life. The free version does everything I need it to do.

why is most of the functionality paid now. why. i have relied on this extension for years and you do this. there is no reason to pay for this.

disappointing to see this go paid out of nowhere, the current features don’t justify the price tag