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by NayamAmarshe 1117 days ago
Remember that you can't use an extension on all browsers and on all platforms. So, having a common platform makes sense.
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Return YouTube dislike is available as a toggle in setting with Yattee on iOS/macOS. The app is available on tvOS as well, it runs Piped or Invidious as the backend and filters out all the ads too. Very nice on the Apple TV.

https://github.com/yattee/yattee

https://www.returnyoutubedislike.com/install

Works for firefox, chrome, opera, brave, edge, tapermonkey userscript.

Firefox android not supported natively, You have to use newpipe fork. I havent tried tampermonkey in ff android, be right back.

It's actually also available as an option in Revanced too.
Those should be called "crippled" platforms or browsers.
Desktop Safari has extensions yet that plugin does not support it. At some point developing for anything but Chromium ceases to make sense since your potential users can just install Chrome, so who cares..
> Desktop Safari has extensions

As a desktop Safari user: Safari theoretically has extensions. Apple made it painful and expensive for developers to publish, and so the ecosystem is in an abysmal state, with ultimately the users losing.

I'm torn between paying for extensions (that are free for other browsers) as a way to say "sincerely thank you" to those developers who bother, and absolutely not paying - to send a message, that this system sucks.

> Apple made it painful and expensive for developers

The most Apple thing to ever have Appled.

And then people say why is market share of Firefox decreasing.

If extension developers spend just a little time porting their extension, then they can point either way.

By forcing your customers to only support chrome, you are helping chrome build a monopoly overtye browser based internet where all extensions and work and play happens only on chrome.

Please do better.

And yes. I have an extension that is built for Firefox and chrome so I have some skin in the game