ad-accelerator

I watched all the ads, just at 100x speed. It doesn't work anymore - RIP the Ad Accelerator - but I could use it guilt free knowing the ads were watched and google collected their money https://github.com/rkk3/ad-accelerator

RIP the Ad Accelerator, which would up the speed upon detection of an ad. Youtube has found a way around it and it no longer works. https://github.com/rkk3/ad-accelerator

Not probably. brigading is a bad idea. My whole point was "hey thats not cool" that you copied me especially since you run a thousand+ person dev community. His rebuttal about wether or not it was legal, or violating the license etc. sort of misses the substance of the argument. To me it was a moral issue not a legal issue [1]. [1] https://github.com/rkk3/ad-accelerator/blob/main/lessons_pos...

haha thanks. And I documented it all in the blog post I wrote way back when [1] there really isn't any question about timeline or if it was inspired. At the end of the day, it was a silly project I built and I got 20k users! It didn't feel great to be copied and have them get 15x more traction. Whatever the thoughts are around that... the reason I posted today was the relevancy to the parent extension because within weeks they tried to (or did) sell the extension's user base (presumably to bad actors). I had no idea how shady the extension world was before this, and I'm much more conservative about which ones I'll install now. [1] https://github.com/rkk3/ad-accelerator/blob/main/lessons_pos...

A few months ago I made a free open source extension to speedup youtube ads that I shared here & hit the front page. Within a week a guy (who commented on my show hn thread) copied it and promoted his version on reddit which went viral and has 300k+ Users [1] But why copy a free open source extension instead of just contributing a pr? Well... a few weeks later he was trying to sell it on multiple sites for 5 figures. Maybe they still own it but I couldn't help but notice that the registered developer for his extension on the chrome store has also changed since it was originally published. [1] https://github.com/rkk3/ad-accelerator/blob/main/lessons_pos...

> They "probably" had your idea in the back of their mind for 10 days, and didn't remember that? That was just a cheeky response they gave me after I reached out on Sunday (8 days after my post). > Document their timeline, versus the timeline you made and continue to make your updates. They first posted theirs 4 days after my Show HN which went viral on r/webdev. I assumed they had just come to it on their own and I didn't realize they had seen & commented on my work until Sunday (8 days after the Show HN). I mention this in the referenced post https://github.com/rkk3/ad-accelerator/blob/main/lessons_pos... >Is there a feature you could add? Like muting the sped up ads? Muting the ads was in the original. But in terms of another feature another member of the community contributed a PR that adds support for Hulu.

Hi HN! 10 days ago I did a Show HN post about a Chrome extension to speed up YouTube ads, which was open sourced under MIT license. A member of HN who is also the admin of a developer community saw & commented on the project. Rather than support it as a contributor, they functionally copied it, created their own Chrome Web Store posting and shared it on r/webdev with zero acknowledgement or inclusion of the original MIT license. I've documented in detail the whole experience.[1] They now have an order of magnitude more traction with 10k+ users. Although I'm happy that our project now has contributors it's hard not to think any work we do won't just continue to be copied. Any advice would be appreciated. [1] https://github.com/rkk3/ad-accelerator/blob/main/lessons_post.md_post.md

Hi HN! Since Youtube no longer allows AdBlockers, I built my own extension to get around their video ads. If there is an ad it temporarily manipulates the video; Mutes the volume, sets speed to 10x, and skips it if there is a button. Chrome Webstore link: https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/ad-accelerator/gpbo... Code: https://github.com/rkk3/ad-accelerator