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Hi Jithin, this looks nice. Good job. Just a word of advice, a lot of scammers typically use techniques like these to market their scams. I get that this is your work and I'd recommend directly sharing vlca.no links instead. Telling users to insert 3 dashes between "you" and "tube", while convenient, can often come off as an attempt at scamming.

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The url hack is common place for legitimate services around YouTube so I think it’s fine. I’ve used two tools that url hack and it’s very very convenient.

Hi @soared! Thank you so much for trying it out, glad that you liked it. :)

Url is a common place to modify behavior, but this is the domain name, something that doesn't get hacked because the domain name conveys trust.

Hi @midnitewarrior!

Thank you for taking time to check this out. Points raised by you are valid. We are trying to give this as a quick solution for people who don't want to install an app or a browser plugin.

Alternatively,

https://volcano.live/embed/home is the page where you can insert links to start the Volcano co-watch for Youtube, Twitch & Vimeo videos.

https://vlca.no/chrome is the chrome plugin where you can do all the above just with click.

Hi @thallavajhula.

Thank you so much for your valuable feedback and kind words.

This is aimed at the users who don't want to install a browser plugin. We have a Chrome plugin (https://vlca.no/chrome) and page at Volcano (https://volcano.live/embed/home) where users can paste the video URL and get the co-watch URLs too.

Please feel free to check out and share your feedback.

Thank you, once again. :)

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