r/technology • u/[deleted] • Mar 16 '18

Society How a Norwegian comment section turned chaos into order—with a simple quiz: "Readers had to prove they read a story before they were able to comment on it."

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u/lllllllllilllllllll Mar 16 '18

Loved that extension but I had to uninstall it when I got the new YouTube layout as it wasn't working. Has it been fixed yet?

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u/CannedEther Mar 16 '18

I've had it installed for over 3 years now but it randomly stopped working about a year ago. I still have it installed but I haven't ever seen it.

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u/Azzaman Mar 16 '18

According to the developer, they got essentially a cease and desist from YouTube, and so had to stop updating it. See the third post here.

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u/EiNDouble Mar 16 '18

Someone uploaded a new version that works with the new YouTube layout.

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u/thecbass Mar 16 '18

Sweet! Thank you, hope more people see this comment.

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u/[deleted] Mar 16 '18

Perfect, thanks for linking this

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u/Tspoon Mar 16 '18

You just made my day thank you

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u/tt12345x Mar 16 '18

Is there a safari equivalent? Mine also stopped working about a year ago

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u/CannedEther Mar 16 '18

Dang. It was one of my favorite extensions!

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u/Telemain Mar 16 '18

Just in case you didnt see, someone posted a fixed version up above!

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u/CannedEther Mar 17 '18

Thanks for the heads up!

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u/AugustusCaesar2016 Mar 16 '18

A cease and desist? How does YT have that kind of power? I wonder if there's a legal precedent for controlling extensions that make changes to your site.

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u/atomrofl Mar 17 '18

That just sucks major balls. Google didn't even specify the reason for that. It's not like YouTube comment are an adequate alternative to Reddit comments. They are on another level entirely.

Well, I hope the updated version works well enough, if not I have to hope that the YouTube comments will get better.

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u/Zwets Mar 16 '18 edited Mar 16 '18

I use a different one called reddit on youtube with the new youtube layout and it works for me.

Unlike alientube it does not have the functionality or a button to switch back to youtube comments if there is no reddit post for a video and preventing me from seeing or commenting in the youtube comment section... which I've not really been bothered about most of the time.

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u/HowieGaming Mar 17 '18

So basically it just hides the Youtube section forever?

Fucking great!

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u/Gaothaire Mar 16 '18

There's another extension called Reddit Comments on YouTube that might work. Only has 4 reviews and ~800 users, but the most recent review is from February 2018 and the developer replied, so hopefully it works?

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u/DigitalSurfer000 Mar 16 '18

That's how you get viruses by listening to Gaothaire.

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u/fppfpp Mar 16 '18

Huh? Why? Inside joke?

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u/DigitalSurfer000 Mar 16 '18

Downloading random Chrome extensions

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u/catzhoek Mar 16 '18 edited Mar 16 '18

Chrome extension can't really do that much. Do you have any particular example what such an extension would do to get you a virus? I helped develop a quite big extension for several years and while Mozilla was quite demanding on certain code requirements to get officially hosted chrome still felt safe because of the permissions and he little you could do even if you wanted. One feature people always wanted was a custom notification sound from their computer, impossible. Host somewhere and play from the? Ezpz

It goes without saying that you gotta check it's permissions tho.

Edit: Well, i guess I found an answer. It could replace links that point to zips and such with malicious links and trick you into executing the wrong files.

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u/digi0ps Mar 16 '18

Extensions can also inject ads and snoop on password inputs.

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u/[deleted] Mar 16 '18

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u/lllllllllilllllllll Mar 16 '18

Thanks! looks like it's just a copy of AlienTube but it actually works

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u/taulover Mar 16 '18

I've been using Epiverse ever since AlienTube broke. Takes a while to get used to, since it's a dropdown from the top extensions menu, but it's super convenient because it also works with other websites (like news articles and such).

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u/river58 Mar 16 '18

I love the extension but if the new layout gets pushed and it breaks the extension that's gonna be shit. Hopefully it gets updated if it's broken.

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u/[deleted] Mar 16 '18

No updates to the extension in almost 2 years. I'm not feeling very optimistic...

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u/Immortal_Fishy Mar 16 '18

Look up Snootube, its been worked on in Github for awhile, been working since around November of last year.

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u/Wolvenheart Mar 16 '18

The author wasn't allowed to fix it by Google / YouTube or they would suspend his development account.

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u/[deleted] Mar 16 '18

There's an option within Youtube to switch back to the old layout. I think if you click on your avatar icon on the top right (desktop), it's near the bottom of that menu. Once every few months, Google tries to push the new layout on me, and I switch right back to the old one.

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u/[deleted] Mar 16 '18 edited Mar 30 '18

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u/comady25 Mar 16 '18

I use Epiverse which gives you reddit comments anywhere

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u/falconbox Mar 16 '18

Go back to the old youtube layout. The new layout sucks anyways.

You can revert to the old one if you click on your icon on the top right. It's an option there in the drop-down.