Recensioner för RYS — Remove YouTube Suggestions
RYS — Remove YouTube Suggestions av Lawrence
Recension av mMartin_
Betygsatt 1 av 5
av mMartin_, för 3 månader sedanFor 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.
197 recensioner
- Betygsatt 1 av 5av roflsunriz, för 13 timmar sedanMost of critical features are blocked by "premium subscribe" paywall. It is now garbage extension.
I just created clone of thie extention to userscript by Codex so I can manage all of the things. - Betygsatt 1 av 5av Firefox-användare 19996639, för 5 dagar sedanMany 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.
- Betygsatt 5 av 5av Firefox-användare 18923488, för 19 dagar sedan
- Betygsatt 1 av 5av girlgamer, för en månad sedanA 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.
- Betygsatt 1 av 5av Firefox-användare 19912177, för 2 månader sedan
- Betygsatt 1 av 5av CS-FF, för 3 månader sedan
- Betygsatt 5 av 5av Firefox-användare 18896950, för 3 månader sedan
- Betygsatt 1 av 5av bogg, för 3 månader sedan
- Betygsatt 1 av 5av watta, för 3 månader sedanused to be good now you have to pay for premium its disappointing to what it has come too
- Betygsatt 1 av 5av Firefox-användare 19795013, för 3 månader sedan"'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)."
- Betygsatt 1 av 5av Firefox-användare 19792845, för 3 månader sedan
- Betygsatt 1 av 5av bibbles, för 3 månader sedanRecently 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.Utvecklarens svar
postad för 3 månader sedan> Doctorow advocates for two ways to reduce enshittification: upholding the end-to-end principle, which asserts that platforms should transmit data in response to user requests rather than algorithm-driven decisions; and guaranteeing the right of exit—that is, enabling a user to leave a platform without losing access to data, which requires interoperability. These moves aim to uphold the standards and trustworthiness of online platforms, emphasize user satisfaction, and encourage market competition.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enshittification
This extension is not a platform. There's no "lock-in". You have the right to exit, and there's a wide array of similar apps to choose from. I'd recommend "Untrap" and "Unhook" which are free alternatives. - Betygsatt 5 av 5av Firefox-användare 14804379, för 3 månader sedanPerfect, it does the job as intended and its updated, big thanks to the author
- Betygsatt 1 av 5av Firefox-användare 19781257, för 4 månader sedan
- Betygsatt 1 av 5av Demian, för 4 månader sedanIt was good while it lasted, everything gets hit by enshittification
- Betygsatt 1 av 5av Leon, för 4 månader sedanThis 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!
- Betygsatt 1 av 5av Firefox-användare 19770375, för 4 månader sedanAll free features became paid features. Do not use.
Utvecklarens svar
postad för 4 månader sedanJust a note to readers, the core features are all still free. See description - Betygsatt 1 av 5av Adam K, för 4 månader sedan
- Betygsatt 1 av 5av Firefox-användare 18566307, för 4 månader sedanWas a great extenstion but is basically useless now that most of the best features are paywalled :)
- Betygsatt 5 av 5av Charzar, för 4 månader sedanI 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.
- Betygsatt 1 av 5av ouchyzapgun, för 4 månader sedanwhy 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.
- Betygsatt 1 av 5av Alexander, för 4 månader sedandisappointing to see this go paid out of nowhere, the current features don’t justify the price tag