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Reviews for V3 - Get Old YouTube Layout (Launcher)

V3 - Get Old YouTube Layout (Launcher) by Reprety

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  • by Barrett Ray, 12 days ago
    It's a nice extension. But why is this not open source? It has bugs (that I'd like to fix), but the source isn't available unless you basically reverse engineer their JavaScript, and the license simply says "all rights reserved".

    tl;dr: weird license and kinda buggy

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    edit: I want to fix the bugs I've found, but there's no way to do so.

    But even more important? I don't like using closed source extensions, especially when they access stuff like my Google account.

    It just feels wrong, man.

    Anyway, you're right that my response was a little immature; I updated the text to be more clear about what I meant.

    Developer response

    posted 12 days ago
    Hello,
    There is no reason to talk like that about a project made by 2 students in their free time, please behave accordingly in the future.

    You can submit a bug report either in our Discord community or via email "[email protected]"
    V3 states clearly in both license and extension manifest/userscript header what google-based URLs can be accessed, it does not make any other type of request on your behalf, it only requests official Google APIs endpoints.
    You can also check with any logging mechanism (either a dedicated program or even a Fetch/XHR hook) what requests it makes and what data they include (the same as any official client).
  • by Max, 15 days ago
    Unfortunately, the extension is incompatible with the Dearrow extension, which is VERY unfortunate, since it is one of my favourite YouTube extensions. It is also quite buggy - it often just straight up doesn't load any videos and I am forced to disable the extension. I tried getting help with this problem last year, but I still didn't get a response. One of the only advantages of this extension over YouTube Redux is that it actually does change the video UI.

    Developer response

    posted 12 days ago
    Hello,
    This can only be solved by submit a ticket to the developer of the extension to add support for old YouTube DOM structure.
  • by Max, 7 months ago
    unfortunately, this extension makes youtube run VERY slow and it often breaks; ive tried asking for help on the discord server, but i got no response... the userscript version doesnt work any better
    also, the extension doesnt work with dearrow and it doesnt work well with sponsorblock

    Developer response

    posted 5 months ago
    Thank you for the feedback. Low performance and thread freezing are caused by using incompatible extensions made for modern YouTube, as advised multiple times in the News and General Discussion channel.
    We cannot provide support for 3rd party extensions, SponsorBlock now supports V3 and people seem to be happy with the functionality provided.